girls:
332 births since 2000
#5384 (6th percentile)
boys:
2.1k births since 1978
#2747 (40th percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1978
#5402 (30th percentile)
The name Jessiah is the #5,402 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,424 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 30.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 30.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,747 (40.1% percentile) for all time with 2,092 births since 1978. For girls, it ranks #5,384 (5.8% percentile) for all time with 332 births since 2000.
Jessiah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (1978 for boys and 2000 for girls). Birth data for Jessiah is available in 38 out of the 46 years between 1978 and 2023 (38 years for boys and 24 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 Jessiah has been given predominantly to boys, with 86.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 92.3% of babies named Jessiah were boys.
For boys, Jessiah reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 15.4% percentile (ranked #762) with 78 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 78 births per million (ranked 15.4% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1992, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Jessiah ranks #820 for boys (10.0% percentile) with 52 births per million, which is 67.3% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Jessiah reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 2.3% percentile (ranked #935) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2019, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jessiah ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 32.8% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jessiah".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jessiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 46.2% confident that Jessiah is pronounced as jeh-SAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-sai-uh, at 41.0% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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