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Jess
Pronounced /d͡ʒɛs/
Rank in 2024
#4,626
Born in 2024
22
Peak year
1915 · #193
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 22 boys were named Jess, about 1 in every 77,969.
- It peaked in 1915 with 577 babies, ranked #193.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 25,045 boys have been named Jess since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Jess per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 0.4Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 0.1Boomers1946–64
- 0.1Gen X1965–80
- 0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 5,974 babies, 0.36 per 1,000. Silent: 3,181 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Boomers: 4,775 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,998 babies, 0.15 per 1,000. Millennials: 3,395 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,085 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 314 babies, 0.01 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Clipping of Jesse, Jessica, or Jessamy.
- A diminutive of the male given name Jesse.
- A diminutive of the female given names Jessica and Jessamy.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /d͡ʒɛs/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Jess, CC BY-SA 4.0.