girls:
169.3k births since 1880
#234 (96th percentile)
boys:
111k births since 1880
#285 (94th percentile)
overall:
280.4k births since 1880
#281 (96th percentile)
The name Jessie is the #281 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 280,382 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 96.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 96.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #234 (95.9% percentile) for all time with 169,347 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #285 (93.8% percentile) for all time with 111,035 births since 1880.
Jessie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Jessie has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for girls (60.4% of all recorded births). In 2023, 72.5% of babies named Jessie were girls.
For girls, Jessie reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 88.4% percentile (ranked #66) with 3,278 births per million. The name was most common in 1882, with 6,967 births per million (ranked 84.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2017, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jessie ranks #619 for girls (34.7% percentile) with 200 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jessie reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 80.3% percentile (ranked #106) with 1,451 births per million. The name was most common in 1910, with 2,475 births per million (ranked 76.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Jessie ranks #783 for boys (14.1% percentile) with 73 births per million, which is 2.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jessie".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jessie", 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 found one way to pronounce the name Jessie. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jessie is pronounced as JEH-see, which has 2 syllables.
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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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