Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Jessiah” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jessiah” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jessiah” 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.

Popularity of “Jessiah” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jessiah” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jessiah” 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.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1978 6 0.00000189 6 -100%
1981 7 0.000002023 7 -100%
1982 5 0.000001425 5 -100%
1983 10 0.000002887 10 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1990 5 0.000001265 5 -100%
1991 6 0.00000154 6 -100%
1992 9 0.000002343 9 -100%
1993 14 0.000003713 14 -100%
1994 13 0.000003497 13 -100%
1996 11 0.000003016 11 -100%
1997 14 0.000003861 14 -100%
1998 14 0.000003806 14 -100%
1999 16 0.000004332 16 -100%
2000 30 0.000007937 9 21 -40%
2001 24 0.000006411 5 19 -58%
2002 40 0.0000107 9 31 -55%
2003 48 0.000012624 11 37 -54%
2004 50 0.000013086 9 41 -64%
2005 64 0.000016646 13 51 -59%
2006 50 0.000012638 12 38 -52%
2007 84 0.000021012 21 63 -50%
2008 70 0.000017809 11 59 -69%
2009 97 0.000025392 12 85 -75%
2010 79 0.000021376 16 63 -59%
2011 71 0.000019411 13 58 -63%
2012 91 0.000024881 13 78 -71%
2013 111 0.000030447 14 97 -75%
2014 117 0.000031567 13 104 -78%
2015 144 0.000038909 27 117 -63%
2016 124 0.000033799 27 97 -56%
2017 149 0.000041664 17 132 -77%
2018 153 0.000043517 15 138 -80%
2019 132 0.00003803 17 115 -74%
2020 164 0.000049093 20 144 -76%
2021 151 0.00004457 8 143 -89%
2022 142 0.000041973 12 130 -83%
2023 104 0.000031409 8 96 -85%
2024 113 0.000033949 10 103 -82%

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