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Jessye

Girls' name

Variant of Jessie

Jessye has been given to 449 babies in the U.S. since 1889. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1992, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Jessye, 2011

1 in 732,000

Jessye over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jessye: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jessie

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jessye means

Jessye is a variant of Jessie.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jessye is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒɛs.i/ for Jessye.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jessye → Jessie → Jessica. The family’s proposed meaning is “he will see/behold/look for”, recorded in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jessie.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 449 girls were recorded with the name Jessye between 1889 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1992; its best national rank was #974 in 1890.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jessye?

Jessye had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2011
1 in 732,000
5 of 3,657,935 births
Among girls only
1 in 352,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2011
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
507,099 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jessye sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 507,099 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jessye. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jessyes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jessye was born before 1932 — so the typical Jessye is around 93 today.

Median birth year
1932
About 93 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
21.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
31.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
164
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 21.4% of all recorded uses (96).

Is Jessye rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (19)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#974
1890

Spellings of Jessye

Jessye is not the most common spelling — Bessie is, with 36.9% against Jessye's 0.10%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jessye is used

Across 1910–2025, Jessye was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,228,092 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jessye has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jessye around the world

Where Jessye ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1999–2002
    #4,137
    in 2002
  • France
    1982–2022
    #5,829
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2002–2002
    #2,580
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1982–2001
    #711
    in 2001

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jessye by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#974
1890
Peak year
1992
19 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
449
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jessye

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jessye

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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