as a First Name
Usually a girl's name, a pet form of Jessica, also recorded in Scotland from an early date as a pet form of Jean, although the derivation is not clear. The Gaelic form is Teasag. It is now quite often used in Scotland and elsewhere as a given name in its own right. As a boy's name it is a respelling of Jesse.
| 428th in the U.S. for 2011 |
Nicknames & variations
Quick facts
- Tens of Thousands
- of people in the U.S have this name
- 129,696
- to be exact (as of February 2011)
- 222,564
- if you include dead people (since the government started keeping track)
- Mississippi
- has the most people named Jessie per capita
- 1910
- marked the height of its popularity
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