Jessie

Meaning: Possibly related to seeing or beholding
Origin: Variant of Jessica (from Hebrew)

Boy's name · #1431 in the US (2025) · Timeless

30% boys · 70% girls — About 70% of babies named Jessie in recent years have been girls. Jessie →

Popularity over time

Few names move less than Jessie — on the books since 1880, #1431 in 2025, and dependable in between. Roughly 111,000 boys share it. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records.

Across the states

In recent years, Jessie ran about 5× its national rate in Mississippi.

Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 15 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.

Famous Jessies

Jessie T. Usher — American actor
Jessie Vargas — American boxer
Jessie Godderz — American professional wrestler, actor
Jessie Bates III — American football player (born 1997)
Jessie Lawrence Ferguson — American actor (1941–2019)

What Jessies become

Among 676 notable people named Jessie:

Entertainers appear 1.62× more often than among typical names — e.g. Jessie T. Usher, American actor.

Similar names: Jesiah · Ben · Jesse · Isiah · Sam · Jed

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