girls:
308 births since 1925
#5408 (5th percentile)
boys:
1.6k births since 1880
#3044 (34th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1880
#5814 (25th percentile)
The name Jessee is the #5,814 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,953 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 24.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,044 (33.6% percentile) for all time with 1,645 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,408 (5.4% percentile) for all time with 308 births since 1925.
Jessee has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1925 for girls). Birth data for Jessee is available in 109 out of the 143 years between 1880 and 2022 (109 years for boys and 31 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jessee has been given predominantly to boys, with 84.2% of all recorded births being male. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Jessee were boys.
For boys, Jessee reached its peak popularity in 1990, achieving the 6.5% percentile (ranked #719) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 51 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2022.
For girls, Jessee reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 1.9% percentile (ranked #809) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jessee".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jessee", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 14 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Jesse" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Jesse..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jessee. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 80.0% confident that Jessee is pronounced as JEH-see, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-SEE, at 20.0% confidence, with 2 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.
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