Jess

girls:

470 births since 1884

#5246 (8th percentile)

boys:

25k births since 1880

#728 (84th percentile)

overall:

25.5k births since 1880

#1592 (79th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jess".

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Key Statistics

Total Births
470
Peak Births
16
Peak Year
1991
First Recorded
1884
Peak Percentile
1.3%
Current Percentile
0.5%
Peak Rank
#238
Current Rank
#942
Female statistics
Total Births
25,021
Peak Births
577
Peak Year
1915
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
62.5%
Current Percentile
2.2%
Peak Rank
#101
Current Rank
#891
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Jess

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jess. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Jess is pronounced as jehs.

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jehs (1 syllable)
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100.0% confidence
JH EH1 S

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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jees (1 syllable)
3 names 470 births
JH IY1 S

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

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Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.