# Jessa (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jessa/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,467 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5 / 6,462 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 47, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

20th-century coinage from Jessie + feminine suffix -a; compare Jenna from Jenny.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 222 | 1,113 |
| 2012 | 255 | 989 |
| 2013 | 208 | 1,157 |
| 2014 | 332 | 835 |
| 2015 | 572 | 545 |
| 2016 | 433 | 676 |
| 2017 | 314 | 872 |
| 2018 | 242 | 1,059 |
| 2019 | 187 | 1,248 |
| 2020 | 167 | 1,325 |
| 2021 | 179 | 1,286 |
| 2022 | 122 | 1,713 |
| 2023 | 99 | 1,991 |
| 2024 | 96 | 2,035 |
| 2025 | 83 | 2,225 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1929 | 5 | 4,272 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 4 | 4,684 |
| 2015 | 11 | 2,328 |
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2018 | 3 | 5,666 |
| 2019 | 3 | 5,591 |
| 2020 | 6 | 3,447 |
| 2022 | 4 | 4,645 |
| 2023 | 5 | 4,056 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

## People named Jessa

- Jessa Rhodes, American pornographic actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.