boys:
98 births since 1980
#4488 (2nd percentile)
overall:
98 births since 1980
#7641 (1st percentile)
The name Jesson is the #7,641 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 98 recorded births since 1980. This represents the 1.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,488 (2.1% percentile) for all time with 98 births since 1980.
Jesson first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1980 (first recorded for boys in 1980). Birth data for Jesson is available in 14 out of the 38 years between 1980 and 2017. 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.
For boys, Jesson reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #869) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2006, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jesson".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Jesson. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Jesson is pronounced as JEH-suhn, which has 2 syllables.
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