Meaning not yet researched.
Jessa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 83 in 2025. Its best rank was #545 in 2015.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #545 in 2015; #2,225 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jessa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,225 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2015, at #545.
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Jessa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 83 girls in 2025. Peak: #545 in 2015 · most girls in one year: 572 (2015).
In 2025, 83 US girls were named Jessa, making it the 2,225th most common girls’ name of the year, down 190 places from #2,035 in 2024. That is 13 fewer than the 96 girls named Jessa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #545, reached in 2015. That year also had the most girls given the name: 572. For comparison, it was #545 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jessa in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 5 babies. In all, 6,467 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 3,007 babies named Jessa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,922 US girls were named Jessa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 433. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,365 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jessa ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #1,282 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Jessah, Jesa and Jesai are summarised on this page.
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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jessah (148), Jesa (48), Jesai (36), Jeiza (12).
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 Jessa in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 11 | #1,282 | #578 |
| New York | 6 | #1,930 | #766 |
| Texas | 9 | #2,294 | #576 |
| California | 8 | #2,374 | #752 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 83 | #2,225 | — | — |
| 2024 | 96 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 2023 | 99 | #1,991 | — | — |
| 2022 | 122 | #1,713 | — | — |
| 2021 | 179 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 2020 | 167 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 2019 | 187 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 2018 | 242 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 2017 | 314 | #872 | — | — |
| 2016 | 433 | #676 | — | — |
| 2015 | 572 | #545 | — | — |
| 2014 | 332 | #835 | — | — |
| 2013 | 208 | #1,157 | — | — |
| 2012 | 255 | #989 | — | — |
| 2011 | 222 | #1,113 | — | — |
| 2010 | 242 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 2009 | 196 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 2008 | 124 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 2007 | 145 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 2006 | 138 | #1,569 | — | — |
| 2005 | 90 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 2004 | 116 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 2003 | 92 | #1,977 | — | — |
| 2002 | 78 | #2,152 | — | — |
| 2001 | 98 | #1,810 | — | — |
| 2000 | 91 | #1,875 | — | — |
| 1999 | 84 | #1,879 | — | — |
| 1998 | 86 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 1996 | 103 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 1995 | 103 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1994 | 113 | #1,420 | — | — |
| 1993 | 107 | #1,490 | — | — |
| 1992 | 98 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1991 | 101 | #1,542 | — | — |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1989 | 62 | #2,035 | — | — |
| 1988 | 52 | #2,197 | — | — |
| 1987 | 56 | #2,001 | — | — |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,644 | — | — |
| 1985 | 45 | #2,264 | — | — |
| 1984 | 37 | #2,533 | — | — |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,012 | — | — |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,461 | — | — |
| 1981 | 48 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 1980 | 39 | #2,454 | — | — |
| 1979 | 33 | #2,692 | — | — |
| 1978 | 35 | #2,490 | — | — |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,032 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,455 | — | — |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,152 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,517 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #6,955 | — | — |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,661 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #8,844 | — | — |
| 1929 | — | — | 5 | #4,272 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,191 | — | — |
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).