Meaning not yet researched.
Jesiah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 277 in 2025. Its best rank was #804 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #804 in 2024; #865 in 2025. About 91% of babies named Jesiah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#865 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #804.
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Jesiah: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 277 boys in 2025. Peak: #804 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 314 (2024).
In 2025, 277 US boys were named Jesiah, making it the 865th most common boys’ name of the year, down 61 places from #804 in 2024. That is 37 fewer than the 314 boys named Jesiah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #804, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 314. For comparison, it was #1,107 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 26 US girls were named Jesiah, making it the 5,031st most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,359 places from #3,672 in 2024. That is 16 fewer than the 42 girls named Jesiah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,894, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 107. For comparison, it was #2,602 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jesiah in 44 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 5 babies. In all, 5,167 US babies have been given the name, 15% of them girls and 85% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,241 babies named Jesiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,305 US boys were named Jesiah; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 314. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,166 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jesiah ranked highest in Maryland in 2025, at #490 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jessiah (2,634 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jeziah, Jysiah and Jesiyah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Jeziah (709), Jysiah (17), Jesiyah (17), Jisiah (11), Jessiyah (11), Jeziyah (11), Jehsiah (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jesiah in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 33 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Maryland | 10 | #490 | — |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #583 | — |
| Florida | 29 | #592 | #793 |
| Kentucky | 6 | #662 | — |
| Texas | 45 | #664 | #892 |
| Wisconsin | 6 | #730 | — |
| Illinois | 12 | #732 | #864 |
| Indiana | 8 | #738 | — |
| Washington | 8 | #763 | #1,020 |
| California | 34 | #765 | #1,000 |
| South Carolina | 5 | #799 | — |
| North Carolina | 11 | #801 | — |
| Georgia | 11 | #818 | #760 |
| Missouri | 6 | #825 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #957 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #974 | #810 |
| Ohio | 8 | #978 | — |
| New York | 12 | #1,018 | #1,192 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,031 | 277 | #865 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,672 | 314 | #804 |
| 2023 | 53 | #3,121 | 275 | #865 |
| 2022 | 53 | #3,096 | 189 | #1,123 |
| 2021 | 79 | #2,320 | 249 | #919 |
| 2020 | 71 | #2,453 | 190 | #1,053 |
| 2019 | 55 | #2,974 | 215 | #988 |
| 2018 | 67 | #2,597 | 211 | #982 |
| 2017 | 107 | #1,894 | 200 | #1,013 |
| 2016 | 65 | #2,678 | 185 | #1,068 |
| 2015 | 69 | #2,602 | 174 | #1,107 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,952 | 146 | #1,243 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,327 | 196 | #1,003 |
| 2012 | — | — | 172 | #1,086 |
| 2011 | — | — | 166 | #1,112 |
| 2010 | — | — | 171 | #1,113 |
| 2009 | 8 | #12,987 | 172 | #1,079 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,512 | 162 | #1,130 |
| 2007 | — | — | 120 | #1,377 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,868 | 112 | #1,412 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,307 | 71 | #1,824 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,968 | 62 | #1,964 |
| 2003 | — | — | 54 | #2,089 |
| 2002 | 5 | #16,610 | 52 | #2,077 |
| 2001 | — | — | 37 | #2,589 |
| 2000 | — | — | 44 | #2,236 |
| 1999 | — | — | 26 | #3,146 |
| 1998 | — | — | 16 | #4,289 |
| 1997 | — | — | 12 | #5,101 |
| 1996 | — | — | 12 | #5,019 |
| 1995 | — | — | 13 | #4,646 |
| 1994 | — | — | 10 | #5,651 |
| 1993 | — | — | 9 | #5,966 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,925 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,765 |
| 1989 | — | — | 6 | #7,414 |
| 1988 | — | — | 8 | #5,438 |
| 1987 | — | — | 5 | #7,503 |
| 1985 | — | — | 10 | #4,195 |
| 1984 | — | — | 8 | #4,750 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,737 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,808 |
| 1981 | — | — | 10 | #3,984 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,007 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).