Meaning not yet researched.
Jessi: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 52 in 2025. Its best rank was #648 in 1981.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #648 in 1981; #3,118 in 2025. About 88% of babies named Jessi in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,118 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1981, at #648.
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Jessi: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 52 girls in 2025. Peak: #648 in 1981 · most girls in one year: 273 (1981).
In 2025, 52 US girls were named Jessi, making it the 3,118th most common girls’ name of the year, up 134 places from #3,252 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 49 girls named Jessi in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #648, reached in 1981. That year also had the most girls given the name: 273. For comparison, it was #2,865 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Jessi, making it the 10,144th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #1,413, reached in 1987. The most boys given the name in a single year was 67, in 1994. For comparison, it was #8,337 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jessi in 62 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1959 with 5 babies. In all, 7,874 US babies have been given the name, 83% of them girls and 17% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,400 babies named Jessi.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 579 US girls were named Jessi; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 78. In 2025 that was about 1 in 30,909 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jessie (281,367 babies since 1880), Jessy (6,771 babies since 1880), Jessiah (2,634 babies since 1880) and Jessee (1,958 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jeisy and Jesy 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jeisy (26), Jesy (15).
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 Jessi in the open dataset we use.
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 | 52 | #3,118 | 7 | #10,144 |
| 2024 | 49 | #3,252 | — | — |
| 2023 | 50 | #3,245 | 5 | #13,089 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,390 | 7 | #10,288 |
| 2021 | 52 | #3,136 | 6 | #11,377 |
| 2020 | 57 | #2,867 | — | — |
| 2019 | 61 | #2,770 | 6 | #11,393 |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,699 | — | — |
| 2017 | 78 | #2,347 | 6 | #11,401 |
| 2016 | 69 | #2,580 | 9 | #8,451 |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,865 | 9 | #8,337 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,863 | 6 | #11,361 |
| 2013 | 78 | #2,354 | 10 | #7,789 |
| 2012 | 58 | #2,952 | 20 | #4,782 |
| 2011 | 77 | #2,399 | 20 | #4,740 |
| 2010 | 92 | #2,142 | 17 | #5,358 |
| 2009 | 78 | #2,457 | 33 | #3,365 |
| 2008 | 126 | #1,759 | 32 | #3,455 |
| 2007 | 100 | #2,044 | 17 | #5,309 |
| 2006 | 112 | #1,828 | 39 | #2,903 |
| 2005 | 104 | #1,865 | 35 | #2,984 |
| 2004 | 117 | #1,659 | 34 | #2,983 |
| 2003 | 113 | #1,692 | 29 | #3,237 |
| 2002 | 128 | #1,486 | 34 | #2,788 |
| 2001 | 107 | #1,690 | 26 | #3,365 |
| 2000 | 111 | #1,592 | 30 | #2,948 |
| 1999 | 126 | #1,406 | 31 | #2,759 |
| 1998 | 131 | #1,344 | 52 | #1,887 |
| 1997 | 174 | #1,081 | 40 | #2,187 |
| 1996 | 191 | #988 | 52 | #1,771 |
| 1995 | 219 | #874 | 44 | #1,939 |
| 1994 | 244 | #827 | 67 | #1,443 |
| 1993 | 214 | #903 | 62 | #1,501 |
| 1992 | 199 | #968 | 39 | #2,020 |
| 1991 | 221 | #889 | 41 | #1,906 |
| 1990 | 210 | #913 | 43 | #1,825 |
| 1989 | 210 | #878 | 45 | #1,720 |
| 1988 | 198 | #888 | 39 | #1,782 |
| 1987 | 203 | #849 | 52 | #1,413 |
| 1986 | 224 | #768 | 30 | #1,986 |
| 1985 | 183 | #875 | 23 | #2,323 |
| 1984 | 172 | #879 | 18 | #2,651 |
| 1983 | 150 | #974 | 28 | #1,925 |
| 1982 | 196 | #810 | 30 | #1,873 |
| 1981 | 273 | #648 | 44 | #1,444 |
| 1980 | 151 | #985 | 28 | #1,984 |
| 1979 | 134 | #1,040 | 20 | #2,422 |
| 1978 | 119 | #1,100 | 14 | #2,982 |
| 1977 | 95 | #1,259 | 13 | #3,102 |
| 1976 | 69 | #1,507 | 11 | #3,372 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,426 | 7 | #4,549 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,151 | 6 | #4,915 |
| 1973 | 17 | #3,695 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,175 | — | — |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,191 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,201 | 5 | #5,071 |
| 1969 | 6 | #6,975 | — | — |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,922 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,334 | — | — |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,932 | — | — |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,197 | — | — |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,663 | — | — |
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).