# Jessie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jessie/  
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 | boys and girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | Jesse, Jesseigh |
| US babies named this | 281,367 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 111,331 / 170,036 (60% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 5,718, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

From Jess + -ie.

## 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 | 408 | 689 |
| 2012 | 448 | 639 |
| 2013 | 479 | 595 |
| 2014 | 508 | 587 |
| 2015 | 471 | 613 |
| 2016 | 460 | 642 |
| 2017 | 453 | 657 |
| 2018 | 449 | 658 |
| 2019 | 417 | 692 |
| 2020 | 388 | 719 |
| 2021 | 356 | 795 |
| 2022 | 356 | 794 |
| 2023 | 355 | 796 |
| 2024 | 348 | 809 |
| 2025 | 330 | 824 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 333 | 696 |
| 2012 | 340 | 698 |
| 2013 | 323 | 723 |
| 2014 | 284 | 808 |
| 2015 | 233 | 919 |
| 2016 | 247 | 886 |
| 2017 | 216 | 961 |
| 2018 | 178 | 1,103 |
| 2019 | 194 | 1,055 |
| 2020 | 155 | 1,219 |
| 2021 | 146 | 1,299 |
| 2022 | 182 | 1,145 |
| 2023 | 136 | 1,373 |
| 2024 | 156 | 1,264 |
| 2025 | 126 | 1,431 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 233 | 216 |
| 2012 | 303 | 168 |
| 2013 | 243 | 210 |
| 2014 | 189 | 258 |
| 2015 | 203 | 245 |
| 2016 | 208 | 245 |
| 2017 | 191 | 260 |
| 2018 | 167 | 285 |
| 2019 | 178 | 273 |
| 2020 | 156 | 298 |
| 2021 | 149 | 314 |
| 2022 | 121 | 355 |
| 2023 | 126 | 340 |
| 2024 | 125 | 351 |
| 2025 | 101 | 403 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 6 | 2,775 |
| 2009 | 7 | 2,544 |
| 2010 | 11 | 1,911 |
| 2012 | 7 | 2,721 |
| 2013 | 5 | 3,315 |
| 2014 | 9 | 2,248 |
| 2015 | 4 | 3,908 |
| 2016 | 11 | 2,027 |
| 2017 | 9 | 2,324 |
| 2018 | 6 | 3,011 |
| 2019 | 11 | 1,986 |
| 2021 | 6 | 3,017 |
| 2022 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 8 | 2,546 |
| 2025 | 5 | 3,684 |

## In other languages

- Arabic: جِيسِي
- Polish: Jessie

## People named Jessie

- Jessie Andrews, American businesswoman, former porn actress
- Jessie Fleming, Canadian association football player
- Jessie Cave, British actress
- Jessie T. Usher, American actor
- Jessie Rogers, Brazilian pornographic actress
- Jessie Ralph, actress (1864-1944)
- Jessie Redmon Fauset, American novelist (1882–1961)
- Claudia Jessie, British actress and singer
- Jessie Royce Landis, American actress (1896-1972)
- Jessie Willcox Smith, American illustrator (1863-1935)
- Jessie Vargas, American boxer
- Jessie Tarbox Beals, American photographer (1870–1942)

## 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.