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Jessy

Feminine · “God beholds”

Jessy is given to both — 2,101 girls and 4,670 boys since 1880. See Jessy as a boy nameSee other names given to both

1968high 1994
#4546 in the U.S.given to only a few children a year
rare30 girls in 2025

Jessy is a short form of Jessica, and Jessica is a name Shakespeare appears to have invented for The Merchant of Venice.

How old is the name Jessy?

Jessy first appears in US birth records in 1968 — 57 years ago. The typical Jessy alive today was born around 1997, making them about 28 years old. About 2,100 people named Jessy are estimated to be alive in the US today.

When was the name Jessy most popular?

Jessy peaked in 1994, reaching #1786 nationally. Today it ranks #4546, 2,760 places below that high. See the whole 1994 chart.

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Where it comes from

The story of Jessy

Jessica appears first in The Merchant of Venice in the 1590s and is not recorded in English before it, which makes it one of a small number of literary inventions that became ordinary names — Wendy, Vanessa, Pamela and Miranda are others. The Genesis name behind it is mentioned once and never again. Jessica became one of the most-used American names of the 1980s.

Meaningscholars disagree

God beholds

Shakespeare's Jessica is generally traced to Iscah, a name in Genesis rendered Jesca in early English Bibles, from a root meaning to look or behold. Jessy may alternatively shorten Jessie, from Jean. Neither is certain.

How the name formed

  1. Iscah
  2. Jessica
  3. Jessy

Related forms: Jessie · Jessica · Jessie

Pronouncing Jessy

JES-ee

Two syllables, first stressed. Jessy and Jessie are said identically.

Nicknames for Jessy

Moderate

JessThe front clip
JessieThe other spelling of the same form
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What the data says

The long climb, and where it stands now

GIRLS NAMED · 1968–202581410813019682025

US babies named Jessy per year from 1968 to 2025
AVERAGE RANK BY DECADE#1#10#100#1000#17861960s2020s

The same years in position rather than babies

First recorded
1968
Most girls named
199481 — the highest on record
Peak rank
#1786reached in 1994
Change vs 2024
−11.8%30 in 2025, from 34
Jessy sits in the rare tail. Its best year on record was 1994, with 81 girls. Today it is given to few enough children that it does not enter the ranked charts at all.

Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.

Jessy in other languages

The same name elsewhere

  • Jessie in English — spelling variant
  • Jessica in English — related form
  • Jessie in Scottish — related form

Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California, Florida.

Jessys among us

2,100

people named Jessy are estimated to be alive in the US today

About 1 girl in 53,576 born in 2025 was named Jessy

Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method

Spellings of Jessy

#4546
Jessy on the 2025 chart
#878
counting every spelling

The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jessy went to 30 girls in 2025, but Jessi is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 82, which makes it the 878th most-given girls’ name of the year — 3,668 places above the chart.

About 1 girl in 19,601 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 53,576 for Jessy itself.

Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method

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Is it right for you

The Kimie test

Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Jessy's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Kimie climbed just as high around 1922, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Kimie's path sketches the road Jessy is walking now.

40%chance Jessy will feel dated by 2040
Jessy, aligned on its peakKimie· peak 1922not yet written
#1#10#100#1000peak-30 yrs+70 yrsKimie · #12958Jessy today
Jessy today is about where Kimie stood in 1953 — 31 years past a #1785-sized peak. By 1968, Kimie had settled around #5347.
Ages quietlysteadyDates fast

Jessy sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.

A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored

Where Jessy is headed

19682030

US babies named Jessy per year, 1968 to 2025, with a projection to 2030

Jessy should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind. Its history is short or jumpy, though, so read this as a sketch rather than a promise.

Steady+7% by 2030projected around #4,392 in 2030

Low confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.

A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.

Jessy beside its neighbors

The names ranked closest to Jessy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.

Jessythis name30#4546Amie30#4546Rashell30#4546Renatta30#4546Raisa30#4546

US girls given each name in 2025.

The trade-off

Practical strengths
  • A genuinely notable literary invention behind it.
  • Jess is a plain short form that works from childhood on.
  • Read correctly on sight by every English speaker.
What to consider
  • Jessie is the standard spelling and will be written for her.
  • It reads as a nickname, which may matter on a formal document.
  • It is used for both sexes in some records.

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Frequently asked

How many Jessys are there in the world?
No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 2,100 people named Jessy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
How do you spell Jessy?
Jessy is one of 2 recorded spellings. Jessi is the more common one — 52 births in 2025 against 30 for Jessy.
How popular is the name Jessy in 2025?
Jessy ranks #4546 among US girl names in 2025, with 30 babies given the name.
How rare is the name Jessy?
About 1 in every 53,576 US girls born in 2025 was named Jessy — 30 in all.
Will my child share the name Jessy with classmates?
Jessy will almost certainly be the only one in school.

Ranked beside Jessy

Names sitting at a similar level of popularity right now.

Amie#4546 · Rashell#4546 · Renatta#4546 · Raisa#4546 · Amena#4546 · Aryn#4546 · Nadiya#4546 · Jeanne#4546

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