Meaning not yet researched.
Jess: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #109 in 1887.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #109 in 1887; #5,299 in 2025. About 64% of babies named Jess in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,299 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1887, at #109.
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Jess: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 boys in 2025. Peak: #109 in 1887 · most boys in one year: 577 (1915).
In 2025, 18 US boys were named Jess, making it the 5,299th most common boys’ name of the year, down 670 places from #4,629 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 22 boys named Jess in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #109, reached in 1887. The most boys given the name in a single year was 577, in 1915. For comparison, it was #3,271 in 2015 and #482 in 1950.
In 2025, 10 US girls were named Jess, making it the 9,747th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,985 places from #12,732 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 7 girls named Jess in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,088, reached in 1884. The most girls given the name in a single year was 16, in 1991. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jess in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 103 babies with the name. In all, 25,550 US babies have been given the name, 1.9% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1910s, with 3,006 babies named Jess.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 237 US boys were named Jess; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 33. In 2025 that was about 1 in 94,893 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jesse (444,920 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
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 Jess in the open dataset we use.
Jess is listed as a nickname for Jesse, Jessica, Jessie.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,747 | 18 | #5,299 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,732 | 22 | #4,629 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,918 | 25 | #4,270 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,662 | 17 | #5,526 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,252 | 25 | #4,164 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,197 | 22 | #4,483 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,040 | 23 | #4,403 |
| 2018 | — | — | 33 | #3,411 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,007 | 22 | #4,529 |
| 2016 | — | — | 30 | #3,638 |
| 2015 | — | — | 35 | #3,271 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,715 | 32 | #3,416 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,816 | 28 | #3,700 |
| 2012 | — | — | 33 | #3,330 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,013 | 37 | #3,078 |
| 2010 | — | — | 32 | #3,412 |
| 2009 | — | — | 45 | #2,725 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,160 | 55 | #2,361 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,287 | 66 | #2,078 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,967 | 60 | #2,159 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,343 | 79 | #1,698 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,109 | 82 | #1,599 |
| 2003 | 6 | #14,666 | 65 | #1,826 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,023 | 70 | #1,688 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,697 | 82 | #1,488 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,249 | 77 | #1,559 |
| 1999 | — | — | 96 | #1,278 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,301 | 91 | #1,306 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,214 | 115 | #1,104 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,901 | 144 | #912 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,429 | 136 | #954 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,458 | 150 | #883 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,215 | 149 | #872 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,415 | 146 | #874 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,776 | 183 | #756 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,794 | 214 | #694 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,678 | 174 | #750 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,976 | 199 | #671 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,415 | 216 | #620 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,932 | 241 | #573 |
| 1985 | 8 | #7,868 | 262 | #542 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,025 | 261 | #533 |
| 1983 | 9 | #6,946 | 306 | #484 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,696 | 337 | #462 |
| 1981 | — | — | 277 | #505 |
| 1980 | — | — | 292 | #496 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,390 | 306 | #470 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,127 | 346 | #425 |
| 1977 | — | — | 311 | #454 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,560 | 277 | #474 |
| 1975 | — | — | 283 | #475 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,099 | 310 | #455 |
| 1973 | — | — | 283 | #465 |
| 1972 | — | — | 242 | #507 |
| 1971 | — | — | 233 | #527 |
| 1970 | — | — | 190 | #590 |
| 1969 | — | — | 189 | #571 |
| 1968 | — | — | 168 | #588 |
| 1967 | — | — | 185 | #547 |
| 1966 | — | — | 200 | #540 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,931 | 183 | #565 |
| 1964 | — | — | 221 | #525 |
| 1963 | — | — | 288 | #464 |
| 1962 | — | — | 293 | #466 |
| 1961 | — | — | 299 | #471 |
| 1960 | — | — | 289 | #467 |
| 1959 | — | — | 228 | #520 |
| 1958 | — | — | 254 | #490 |
| 1957 | — | — | 272 | #469 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,358 | 270 | #459 |
| 1955 | — | — | 267 | #455 |
| 1954 | — | — | 245 | #464 |
| 1953 | — | — | 238 | #463 |
| 1952 | — | — | 248 | #449 |
| 1951 | — | — | 232 | #443 |
| 1950 | — | — | 193 | #482 |
| 1949 | — | — | 235 | #436 |
| 1948 | — | — | 222 | #446 |
| 1947 | — | — | 261 | #422 |
| 1946 | — | — | 220 | #429 |
| 1945 | — | — | 167 | #461 |
| 1944 | — | — | 180 | #452 |
| 1943 | 5 | #4,981 | 190 | #458 |
| 1942 | — | — | 190 | #450 |
| 1941 | — | — | 163 | #464 |
| 1940 | — | — | 170 | #445 |
| 1939 | — | — | 165 | #445 |
| 1938 | — | — | 151 | #472 |
| 1937 | — | — | 156 | #451 |
| 1936 | — | — | 158 | #447 |
| 1935 | — | — | 167 | #438 |
| 1934 | — | — | 166 | #439 |
| 1933 | — | — | 178 | #406 |
| 1932 | — | — | 194 | #405 |
| 1931 | — | — | 157 | #447 |
| 1930 | — | — | 207 | #406 |
| 1929 | — | — | 224 | #385 |
| 1928 | 5 | #5,056 | 198 | #422 |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,191 | 268 | #357 |
| 1926 | — | — | 239 | #378 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,366 | 269 | #360 |
| 1924 | — | — | 261 | #376 |
| 1923 | — | — | 275 | #358 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,223 | 248 | #381 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,495 | 338 | #317 |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,459 | 333 | #317 |
| 1919 | 12 | #2,723 | 355 | #283 |
| 1918 | — | — | 387 | #271 |
| 1917 | — | — | 352 | #273 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,404 | 485 | #220 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,609 | 577 | #193 |
| 1914 | — | — | 258 | #271 |
| 1913 | — | — | 180 | #296 |
| 1912 | — | — | 171 | #269 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,662 | 106 | #250 |
| 1910 | — | — | 103 | #231 |
| 1909 | — | — | 87 | #236 |
| 1908 | — | — | 88 | #220 |
| 1907 | — | — | 88 | #216 |
| 1906 | — | — | 67 | #238 |
| 1905 | — | — | 85 | #208 |
| 1904 | — | — | 102 | #179 |
| 1903 | — | — | 81 | #195 |
| 1902 | 6 | #1,698 | 86 | #193 |
| 1901 | — | — | 85 | #175 |
| 1900 | 6 | #1,828 | 128 | #164 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,721 | 86 | #170 |
| 1898 | — | — | 108 | #158 |
| 1897 | 6 | #1,461 | 110 | #146 |
| 1896 | — | — | 87 | #189 |
| 1895 | — | — | 102 | #153 |
| 1894 | — | — | 104 | #147 |
| 1893 | — | — | 107 | #140 |
| 1892 | — | — | 108 | #148 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,150 | 87 | #151 |
| 1890 | 5 | #1,419 | 114 | #128 |
| 1889 | — | — | 121 | #116 |
| 1888 | 6 | #1,207 | 132 | #122 |
| 1887 | — | — | 124 | #109 |
| 1886 | — | — | 140 | #111 |
| 1885 | 5 | #1,118 | 119 | #115 |
| 1884 | 5 | #1,088 | 124 | #116 |
| 1883 | — | — | 112 | #116 |
| 1882 | — | — | 122 | #118 |
| 1881 | — | — | 85 | #147 |
| 1880 | — | — | 103 | #128 |
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).