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Jessiah: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 88 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,273 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,273 in 2020; #1,817 in 2025. About 93% of babies named Jessiah in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,817 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #1,273.
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Jessiah: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 88 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,273 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 144 (2020).
In 2025, 88 US boys were named Jessiah, making it the 1,817th most common boys’ name of the year, down 172 places from #1,645 in 2024. That is 15 fewer than the 103 boys named Jessiah in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,273, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 144. For comparison, it was #1,448 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Jessiah, making it the 12,478th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,614 places from #9,864 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 10 girls named Jessiah in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,042, reached in 2015. The most girls given the name in a single year was 27, in 2016. For comparison, it was #5,042 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jessiah in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 6 babies. In all, 2,634 US babies have been given the name, 13% of them girls and 87% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,172 babies named Jessiah.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,187 US boys were named Jessiah; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 144. In 2025 that was about 1 in 19,410 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jessiah ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #1,103 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jessie (281,367 babies since 1880), Jessi (7,874 babies since 1880) and Jesiah (5,167 babies since 1880).
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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 Jessiah 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 5 | #1,103 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,299 | #1,450 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,380 | — |
| Texas | 14 | #1,380 | #1,223 |
| California | 8 | #1,910 | #1,488 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,478 | 88 | #1,817 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,864 | 103 | #1,645 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,638 | 96 | #1,731 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,763 | 130 | #1,418 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,575 | 143 | #1,314 |
| 2020 | 20 | #5,962 | 144 | #1,273 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,859 | 116 | #1,482 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,552 | 138 | #1,322 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,932 | 132 | #1,353 |
| 2016 | 27 | #5,060 | 97 | #1,649 |
| 2015 | 27 | #5,042 | 117 | #1,448 |
| 2014 | 13 | #8,694 | 104 | #1,542 |
| 2013 | 14 | #8,329 | 97 | #1,596 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,858 | 78 | #1,873 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,863 | 58 | #2,248 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,691 | 63 | #2,134 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,667 | 85 | #1,778 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,400 | 59 | #2,248 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,428 | 63 | #2,149 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,565 | 38 | #2,951 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,557 | 51 | #2,314 |
| 2004 | 9 | #11,112 | 41 | #2,617 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,331 | 37 | #2,699 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,602 | 31 | #2,980 |
| 2001 | 5 | #16,475 | 19 | #4,207 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,255 | 21 | #3,842 |
| 1999 | — | — | 16 | #4,448 |
| 1998 | — | — | 14 | #4,758 |
| 1997 | — | — | 14 | #4,554 |
| 1996 | — | — | 11 | #5,347 |
| 1994 | — | — | 13 | #4,653 |
| 1993 | — | — | 14 | #4,339 |
| 1992 | — | — | 9 | #5,869 |
| 1991 | — | — | 6 | #7,708 |
| 1990 | — | — | 5 | #8,738 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #5,934 |
| 1983 | — | — | 10 | #4,003 |
| 1982 | — | — | 5 | #6,812 |
| 1981 | — | — | 7 | #5,183 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,394 |
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).