How popular is “Jessica” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jessica” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jessica” 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 “Jessica” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jessica” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jessica” 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
1880	7	0.000034742	7		100%
1881	7	0.000036328	7		100%
1882	8	0.000036112	8		100%
1883	6	0.000027657	6		100%
1884	14	0.000057504	14		100%
1885	6	0.000024911	6		100%
1886	11	0.000043084	11		100%
1887	8	0.000032337	8		100%
1888	18	0.000060105	18		100%
1889	9	0.000031148	9		100%
1890	18	0.000059721	18		100%
1891	14	0.000048836	14		100%
1892	14	0.000041869	14		100%
1893	15	0.000046122	15		100%
1894	10	0.000029526	10		100%
1895	19	0.000054128	19		100%
1896	9	0.000025176	9		100%
1897	9	0.00002594	9		100%
1898	13	0.00003408	13		100%
1899	14	0.000041269	14		100%
1900	23	0.000051082	23		100%
1901	8	0.000023134	8		100%
1902	9	0.000023272	9		100%
1903	16	0.000041973	16		100%
1904	16	0.000039655	16		100%
1905	17	0.000040102	17		100%
1906	18	0.000042012	18		100%
1907	17	0.000036529	17		100%
1908	17	0.00003479	17		100%
1909	18	0.00003521	18		100%
1910	28	0.000047401	28		100%
1911	21	0.000032595	21		100%
1912	36	0.000036435	36		100%
1913	25	0.000021986	25		100%
1914	42	0.000029654	42		100%
1915	55	0.000030015	55		100%
1916	53	0.000027398	53		100%
1917	55	0.000027407	55		100%
1918	56	0.000025793	56		100%
1919	40	0.000018955	40		100%
1920	43	0.000019004	43		100%
1921	48	0.000020561	48		100%
1922	40	0.000017474	40		100%
1923	52	0.000022584	52		100%
1924	41	0.000017215	41		100%
1925	34	0.000014572	34		100%
1926	35	0.000015245	35		100%
1927	39	0.000016815	39		100%
1928	36	0.000015923	36		100%
1929	42	0.000019159	42		100%
1930	38	0.000017092	38		100%
1931	40	0.000019008	40		100%
1932	44	0.00002084	44		100%
1933	43	0.000021506	43		100%
1934	46	0.000022149	46		100%
1935	47	0.000022489	47		100%
1936	43	0.000020697	43		100%
1937	71	0.000033323	71		100%
1938	50	0.000022598	50		100%
1939	77	0.000034945	77		100%
1940	61	0.000026491	61		100%
1941	81	0.000033245	81		100%
1942	127	0.000046489	127		100%
1943	121	0.000042869	121		100%
1944	124	0.000046095	124		100%
1945	132	0.000049757	132		100%
1946	240	0.00007511	240		100%
1947	430	0.000119367	430		100%
1948	482	0.000139608	482		100%
1949	406	0.000116507	406		100%
1950	402	0.000114747	402		100%
1951	466	0.000126502	466		100%
1952	453	0.000119273	453		100%
1953	495	0.00012845	495		100%
1954	424	0.000106514	424		100%
1955	387	0.000096387	387		100%
1956	406	0.000098471	406		100%
1957	476	0.000113276	476		100%
1958	529	0.000127966	529		100%
1959	522	0.000125541	522		100%
1960	556	0.000133853	556		100%
1961	668	0.000161263	668		100%
1962	864	0.000214107	864		100%
1963	1125	0.00028422	1120	5	99%
1964	1178	0.000303014	1171	7	99%
1965	1540	0.000424775	1532	8	99%
1966	1678	0.000482787	1668	10	99%
1967	1772	0.00052196	1760	12	99%
1968	1840	0.000544634	1840		100%
1969	2505	0.000720796	2492	13	99%
1970	4037	0.001119363	4022	15	99%
1971	5379	0.001567146	5360	19	99%
1972	6230	0.001982186	6206	24	99%
1973	7248	0.002402477	7228	20	99%
1974	10697	0.003518751	10655	42	99%
1975	12979	0.004298544	12928	51	99%
1976	18425	0.006072241	18369	56	99%
1977	24937	0.007850479	24845	92	99%
1978	26198	0.008254277	26103	95	99%
1979	27896	0.008384731	27782	114	99%
1980	34049	0.009885017	33923	126	99%
1981	42697	0.012342403	42532	165	99%
1982	45637	0.013009548	45449	188	99%
1983	45478	0.013131259	45284	194	99%
1984	46038	0.013196112	45858	180	99%
1985	48578	0.013610676	48348	230	99%
1986	52901	0.014872038	52684	217	99%
1987	56239	0.015597621	55996	243	99%
1988	51782	0.01401391	51557	225	99%
1989	48139	0.012521697	47887	252	99%
1990	46626	0.01179665	46486	140	99%
1991	43515	0.011171255	43395	120	99%
1992	38464	0.010013347	38361	103	99%
1993	35093	0.009307799	34993	100	99%
1994	32227	0.008668642	32122	105	99%
1995	27990	0.007643041	27939	51	100%
1996	24247	0.006648123	24200	47	100%
1997	21090	0.005816729	21045	45	100%
1998	18268	0.004966551	18238	30	100%
1999	16378	0.004433836	16350	28	100%
2000	15738	0.004163598	15711	27	100%
2001	13952	0.003727103	13925	27	100%
2002	11943	0.003194775	11921	22	100%
2003	10471	0.002753846	10454	17	100%
2004	9505	0.002487619	9470	35	99%
2005	8134	0.00211556	8115	19	100%
2006	6825	0.001725145	6815	10	100%
2007	5727	0.00143258	5714	13	100%
2008	4745	0.001207175	4739	6	100%
2009	3811	0.000997598	3801	10	99%
2010	3206	0.000867485	3200	6	100%
2011	2634	0.000720107	2625	9	99%
2012	2335	0.000638437	2335		100%
2013	1951	0.000535156	1951		100%
2014	1802	0.000486189	1802		100%
2015	1591	0.000429894	1591		100%
2016	1397	0.000380789	1392	5	99%
2017	1291	0.000360998	1291		100%
2018	1066	0.000303194	1066		100%
2019	969	0.000279176	969		100%
2020	779	0.000233193	779		100%
2021	656	0.000193627	656		100%
2022	620	0.000183262	620		100%
2023	550	0.000166103	550		100%
2024	526	0.000158029	526		100%

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