Jessa
Jessa is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 95 births. Its best rank was 545th, in 2015.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 950.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 2015572 births
- Best rank
- #545in 2015
- Since 1918
- 6,376people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,376 girls have been named Jessa in the United States since 1918, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 572 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 47%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 2015, its biggest year
Jessa was the 545th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 2015 were Emma, Olivia, Sophia, Ava and Isabella. See all of 2015.
Names that rose and fell with Jessa
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Adriellepeak 2019
- Crimsonpeak 2016
- Kylynnpeak 2015
- Mearapeak 2015
- Jaydepeak 2017
- Lexingtonpeak 2014
- Jentrypeak 2018
- Kendalynpeak 2014
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.