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Boy's name · #1431 in the US (2025) · Timeless
30% boys · 70% girls — About 70% of babies named Jessie in recent years have been girls. Jessie →
Few names move less than Jessie — on the books since 1880, #1431 in 2025, and dependable in between. Roughly 111,000 boys have carried the name since. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.
In recent years, Jessie ran about 5× its national rate in Mississippi.
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 15 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
See how Jessie ranks in other countries and regions.
#2,527 in Canada (2025) · #3,684 in England & Wales (2025) · #5,746 in Ecuador (2023) · #1,049 in Netherlands (2019) · #4,875 in France (2016) · #699 in Ireland (2015) · #361 in Puerto Rico (1999) · #336 in New Zealand (1998) · #782 in Belgium (1996).
Among 676 notable people named Jessie:
Entertainers appear 1.62× more often than among typical names — e.g. Jessie T. Usher, American actor (born 1992).
Similar names: Jessiah · Ben · Jerome · Isiah · Reuben · Hosea
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