How popular is “Jessie” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jessie” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jessie” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jessie” 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	789	0.003915944	635	154	61%
1881	804	0.004172548	661	143	64%
1882	998	0.004504972	806	192	62%
1883	985	0.0045403	834	151	69%
1884	1065	0.004374417	888	177	67%
1885	1154	0.004791284	952	202	65%
1886	1184	0.00463739	1003	181	69%
1887	1194	0.004826348	1012	182	70%
1888	1454	0.004855179	1200	254	65%
1889	1403	0.004855579	1196	207	70%
1890	1491	0.004946898	1250	241	68%
1891	1346	0.004695245	1119	227	66%
1892	1497	0.004477023	1246	251	66%
1893	1430	0.004396983	1216	214	70%
1894	1375	0.004059759	1120	255	63%
1895	1545	0.004401458	1300	245	68%
1896	1332	0.003726041	1103	229	66%
1897	1425	0.004107137	1191	234	67%
1898	1511	0.003961149	1244	267	65%
1899	1342	0.003955971	1081	261	61%
1900	1820	0.004042127	1422	398	56%
1901	1347	0.00389518	1116	231	66%
1902	1563	0.004041548	1240	323	59%
1903	1482	0.003887723	1202	280	62%
1904	1510	0.003742395	1197	313	59%
1905	1653	0.003899302	1315	338	59%
1906	1570	0.003664363	1247	323	59%
1907	1700	0.00365285	1314	386	55%
1908	1737	0.003554699	1382	355	59%
1909	1753	0.003429025	1321	432	51%
1910	2057	0.003482244	1541	516	50%
1911	2050	0.003181856	1550	500	51%
1912	2744	0.002777154	2052	692	50%
1913	3233	0.002843173	2475	758	53%
1914	3809	0.002689318	2860	949	50%
1915	4596	0.00250815	3356	1240	46%
1916	4683	0.002420884	3414	1269	46%
1917	4826	0.002404884	3465	1361	44%
1918	5003	0.00230435	3591	1412	44%
1919	5003	0.002370815	3530	1473	41%
1920	4919	0.002174006	3329	1590	35%
1921	4742	0.002031266	3225	1517	36%
1922	4773	0.002085048	3182	1591	33%
1923	4478	0.001944859	2995	1483	34%
1924	4607	0.001934406	3147	1460	37%
1925	4418	0.001893454	2951	1467	34%
1926	4402	0.001917327	2921	1481	33%
1927	4319	0.001862153	2858	1461	32%
1928	3841	0.001698852	2423	1418	26%
1929	3587	0.001636285	2258	1329	26%
1930	3524	0.00158504	2195	1329	25%
1931	3197	0.001519207	1930	1267	21%
1932	3176	0.001504293	1896	1280	19%
1933	2887	0.001443899	1808	1079	25%
1934	2882	0.001387701	1792	1090	24%
1935	2723	0.001302933	1619	1104	19%
1936	2598	0.001250495	1586	1012	22%
1937	2592	0.001216519	1550	1042	20%
1938	2448	0.001106404	1476	972	21%
1939	2454	0.001113712	1396	1058	14%
1940	2355	0.001022719	1336	1019	13%
1941	2393	0.000982177	1355	1038	13%
1942	2394	0.00087634	1391	1003	16%
1943	2413	0.000854898	1313	1100	9%
1944	2250	0.000836407	1217	1033	8%
1945	2047	0.000771606	1107	940	8%
1946	2193	0.000686319	1173	1020	7%
1947	2208	0.000612938	1157	1051	5%
1948	2166	0.000627368	1071	1095	-1%
1949	2053	0.000589134	1030	1023	0%
1950	1957	0.000558607	936	1021	-4%
1951	1929	0.000523653	940	989	-3%
1952	1912	0.000503422	878	1034	-8%
1953	1971	0.000511464	900	1071	-9%
1954	1753	0.000440374	760	993	-13%
1955	1710	0.000425894	747	963	-13%
1956	1735	0.000420806	684	1051	-21%
1957	1699	0.000404318	634	1065	-25%
1958	1606	0.000388495	588	1018	-27%
1959	1545	0.000371574	585	960	-24%
1960	1442	0.000347151	509	933	-29%
1961	1420	0.000342805	470	950	-34%
1962	1385	0.000343215	445	940	-36%
1963	1304	0.000329443	400	904	-39%
1964	1318	0.000339026	411	907	-38%
1965	1347	0.00037154	474	873	-30%
1966	1377	0.000396184	475	902	-31%
1967	1171	0.000344929	373	798	-36%
1968	1037	0.000306949	320	717	-38%
1969	1097	0.000315654	324	773	-41%
1970	1065	0.000295299	336	729	-37%
1971	1117	0.000325433	359	758	-36%
1972	1073	0.000341394	317	756	-41%
1973	1105	0.000366272	352	753	-36%
1974	1108	0.000364474	358	750	-35%
1975	1164	0.000385508	392	772	-33%
1976	1271	0.000418877	448	823	-30%
1977	1418	0.000446404	485	933	-32%
1978	1539	0.000484897	644	895	-16%
1979	1744	0.000524196	720	1024	-17%
1980	1911	0.000554797	813	1098	-15%
1981	2462	0.000711689	1209	1253	-2%
1982	2472	0.000704683	1144	1328	-7%
1983	2050	0.000591914	889	1161	-13%
1984	2088	0.000598494	993	1095	-5%
1985	2242	0.000628168	1111	1131	-1%
1986	2395	0.000673305	1277	1118	7%
1987	2385	0.000661468	1223	1162	3%
1988	2243	0.000607029	1161	1082	4%
1989	2280	0.000593063	1147	1133	1%
1990	2373	0.000600383	1118	1255	-6%
1991	2292	0.000588407	1116	1176	-3%
1992	2144	0.000558148	1096	1048	2%
1993	2191	0.000581124	1108	1083	1%
1994	2238	0.000601993	1255	983	12%
1995	2041	0.000557322	1138	903	12%
1996	1855	0.00050861	981	874	6%
1997	1599	0.000441012	846	753	6%
1998	1386	0.000376814	744	642	7%
1999	1321	0.00035762	740	581	12%
2000	1252	0.000331225	719	533	15%
2001	1204	0.000321634	611	593	1%
2002	1329	0.00035551	676	653	2%
2003	1245	0.000327432	618	627	-1%
2004	1178	0.000308302	607	571	3%
2005	1097	0.000285317	507	590	-8%
2006	1075	0.000271726	529	546	-2%
2007	1032	0.00025815	499	533	-3%
2008	981	0.000249576	493	488	1%
2009	884	0.000231403	424	460	-4%
2010	825	0.00022323	419	406	2%
2011	741	0.000202581	408	333	10%
2012	788	0.000215456	448	340	14%
2013	802	0.000219987	479	323	19%
2014	792	0.000213686	508	284	28%
2015	704	0.000190223	471	233	34%
2016	707	0.000192711	460	247	30%
2017	669	0.00018707	453	216	35%
2018	627	0.000178333	449	178	43%
2019	611	0.000176033	417	194	36%
2020	543	0.000162547	388	155	43%
2021	499	0.000147287	356	143	43%
2022	538	0.000159024	356	182	32%
2023	490	0.000147983	354	136	44%
2024	504	0.00015142	348	156	38%

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