Meaning and history
A short form of Jesse or Jessica.
20062006: 60 births, rank #2,150
2007: 66 births, rank #2,071
2008: 55 births, rank #2,345
2009: 45 births, rank #2,702
2010: 32 births, rank #3,377
20112011: 37 births, rank #3,046
2012: 33 births, rank #3,297
2013: 28 births, rank #3,661
2014: 32 births, rank #3,371
2015: 35 births, rank #3,231
20162016: 30 births, rank #3,596
2017: 22 births, rank #4,466
2018: 33 births, rank #3,373
2019: 23 births, rank #4,337
2020: 22 births, rank #4,426
20212021: 25 births, rank #4,118
2022: 17 births, rank #5,445
2023: 25 births, rank #4,220
2024: 22 births, rank #4,571
20252025: 18 births, rank #5,208
Jess rose from #954 to #912 for boys between 1995 and 1996. Its highest annual birth count came in 1915, with 577 births.