girls:
12.3k births since 1880
#1413 (75th percentile)
boys:
428.4k births since 1880
#77 (98th percentile)
overall:
440.7k births since 1880
#156 (98th percentile)
The name Jesse is the #156 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 440,707 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 98.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 98.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #77 (98.3% percentile) for all time with 428,362 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #1,413 (75.3% percentile) for all time with 12,345 births since 1880.
Jesse has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Jesse has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Jesse reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 94.7% percentile (ranked #37) with 5,609 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 5,609 births per million (ranked 94.7% percentile). Despite a low point around 2004, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for boys. Currently, Jesse ranks #200 for boys (78.1% percentile) with 985 births per million, which is 17.6% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jesse reached its peak popularity in 1981, achieving the 41.5% percentile (ranked #455) with 212 births per million. The name was most common in 1981, with 212 births per million (ranked 41.5% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jesse ranks #880 for girls (7.1% percentile) with 41 births per million, which is 19.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jesse".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jesse. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.5% confident that Jesse is pronounced as JEH-see, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jehs, at 17.5% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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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.
The raw pronunciations shown (like JH EH1 S IY0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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.
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