Jessie
Jessie is ranked 808th among girls in 2024 (348 births). Its best rank was 35th, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- #808down 12 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3480.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 19183,591 births
- Best rank
- #35in 1881
- Since 1880
- 280,906people given the name
The story in the numbers
169,704 girls have been named Jessie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1918, with 3,591 births — 0.31% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 348 births in 2024, against 3,591 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1927, and the 1920s alone account for 17%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 48 of them in the top 100.
Jessie is used for both sexes: 40% of its bearers are boys (111,202), most of them born around 1922.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jessie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 9,187 | |
| 1890s | 11,870 | |
| 1900s | 12,756 | |
| 1910s | 27,834 | |
| 1920s | 29,289 | |
| 1930s | 17,248 | |
| 1940s | 12,150 | |
| 1950s | 7,652 | |
| 1960s | 4,201 | |
| 1970s | 4,411 | |
| 1980s | 10,967 | |
| 1990s | 10,142 | |
| 2000s | 5,683 | |
| 2010s | 4,512 | |
| 2020s | 1,802 |
In 1918, its biggest year
Jessie was the 75th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1918 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1918.
Names that rose and fell with Jessie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Florapeak 1920
- Mattiepeak 1920
- Annapeak 1918
- Lenapeak 1917
- Lilliepeak 1919
- Anniepeak 1922
- Clarapeak 1918
- Corneliapeak 1921
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.