How popular is “Jessa” in the USA?

This chart shows how many people named “Jessa” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jessa” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jessa” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

This chart shows how “Jessa” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1918	5	0.000002303	5		100%
1929	5	0.000002281		5	-100%
1971	5	0.000001457	5		100%
1972	9	0.000002864	9		100%
1973	7	0.00000232	7		100%
1974	10	0.000003289	10		100%
1975	9	0.000002981	9		100%
1976	14	0.000004614	14		100%
1977	26	0.000008185	26		100%
1978	35	0.000011028	35		100%
1979	33	0.000009919	33		100%
1980	39	0.000011322	39		100%
1981	48	0.000013875	48		100%
1982	24	0.000006842	24		100%
1983	28	0.000008085	28		100%
1984	37	0.000010606	37		100%
1985	45	0.000012608	45		100%
1986	37	0.000010402	37		100%
1987	56	0.000015531	56		100%
1988	52	0.000014073	52		100%
1989	62	0.000016127	62		100%
1990	85	0.000021505	85		100%
1991	101	0.000025929	101		100%
1992	98	0.000025512	98		100%
1993	107	0.00002838	107		100%
1994	113	0.000030396	113		100%
1995	103	0.000028126	103		100%
1996	103	0.000028241	103		100%
1997	80	0.000022064	80		100%
1998	86	0.000023381	86		100%
1999	84	0.00002274	84		100%
2000	91	0.000024075	91		100%
2001	98	0.000026179	98		100%
2002	78	0.000020865	78		100%
2003	92	0.000024196	92		100%
2004	116	0.000030359	116		100%
2005	90	0.000023408	90		100%
2006	138	0.000034882	138		100%
2007	145	0.000036271	145		100%
2008	124	0.000031547	124		100%
2009	196	0.000051307	196		100%
2010	242	0.000065481	242		100%
2011	222	0.000060692	222		100%
2012	255	0.000069722	255		100%
2013	208	0.000057054	208		100%
2014	332	0.000089575	332		100%
2015	572	0.000154557	572		100%
2016	433	0.000118026	433		100%
2017	314	0.000087803	314		100%
2018	241	0.000068546	241		100%
2019	187	0.000053876	187		100%
2020	166	0.000049692	166		100%
2021	179	0.000052834	179		100%
2022	122	0.000036061	122		100%
2023	99	0.000029899	99		100%
2024	95	0.000028541	95		100%

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