Jessy
Masculine
Jessy is given to both — 4,670 boys and 2,101 girls since 1880. See Jessy as a girl nameSee other names given to both
Jesse is the father of David, a farmer at Bethlehem with eight sons, the youngest of whom is out with the sheep when the prophet arrives. The tree of Jesse in medieval stained glass grows out of his side and carries the whole genealogy. What his name means has never been established.
How old is the name Jessy?
Jessy first appears in US birth records in 1915 — 110 years ago. The typical Jessy alive today was born around 1992, making them about 33 years old. About 4,300 people named Jessy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jessy most popular?
Jessy peaked in 1992, reaching #757 nationally. Today it ranks #5208, 4,451 places below that high. See the whole 1992 chart.
Where it comes from
From Yishai to Jessy
The story of Jessy
Jesse appears in Samuel as the father of the king, and Isaiah's line about a shoot from the stump of Jesse made him a fixture of Christian art: the Jesse tree is one of the standard subjects of medieval windows. English Protestants took the name after the Reformation and it became particularly common in the American South. The -y spelling is a modern American softening and is used for both sexes, which is unusual for a biblical name.
Meaningscholars disagree
Not established
Hebrew Yishai has no accepted etymology. Gift, from a root about giving, and my husband, from ish, have both been proposed, and neither is convincing. The name is well attested and its meaning is not.
How the name formed
- Yishai
- Iessai
- Jesse
- Jessy
Related forms: ישי · Jesse · Isaí
Pronouncing Jessy
JESS-ee
Two syllables, stress in front. Jesse and Jessy are said identically.
Nicknames for Jessy
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1915
- Most boys named
- 1992188 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #757reached in 1992
- Change vs 2023
- −28.0%18 in 2025, from 25
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
- ישי in Hebrew — transliteration
- Jesse in English — spelling variant
- Isaí in Spanish — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas.
Jessys among us
people named Jessy are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 94,893 born in 2025 was named Jessy
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Jessy
- #5208
- Jessy on the 2025 chart
- #903
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Jessy went to 18 boys in 2025, but Jessi is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 25, which makes it the 903rd most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,305 places above the chart.
- Jessy18
- Jessi7
About 1 boy in 68,323 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 94,893 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
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Sherwin 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: Sherwin climbed just as high around 1935, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Sherwin's path sketches the road Jessy is walking now.
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
Jessy beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Jessy in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- Jess and Jay are ready short forms and both are complete names.
- The biblical bearer sits at the head of a genealogy everybody has heard of.
- Every sound is ordinary English, so nobody stumbles.
- Jesse is the standard spelling for boys and Jessie for girls, so this one gets corrected both ways.
- It is used for both sexes, so paperwork does not always guess right.
- Its meaning is genuinely unknown, so anything given for it is a guess.
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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 4,300 people named Jessy are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Jessy?
- Jessy is the most-used spelling in US records — 18 of the 25 babies given the name in 2025. The others recorded are Jessi.
- How popular is the name Jessy in 2025?
- Jessy ranks #5208 among US boy names in 2025, with 18 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Jessy?
- About 1 in every 94,893 US boys born in 2025 was named Jessy — 18 in all.
- Will my child share the name Jessy with classmates?
- Jessy will almost certainly be the only one in school.
Ranked beside Jessy
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