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Jessa
Rank in 2024
#2,041
Born in 2024
95
Peak year
2015 · #544
Origin
Not recorded
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 95 girls were named Jessa, about 1 in every 16,981.
- It peaked in 2015 with 572 babies, ranked #544.
- It first shows up in the records in 1918.
- 6,376 girls have been named Jessa since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Jessa per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0Silent1928–45
- 0Boomers1946–64
- <0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 187 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,099 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,137 babies, 0.07 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 2,948 babies, 0.15 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
20th-century coinage from Jessie + feminine suffix -a; compare Jenna from Jenny.
- A female given name.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Jessa, CC BY-SA 4.0.