Jésse
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jésse is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Ancient Greek Ἰεσσαί (Iessaí), from Hebrew יִשַׁי (Yishai).
- USUnited States1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 1.3K
- CACanada≈1 in 1.4K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #485 (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 613 (measured from records)
- 1 in 449 (inferred from the name graph)
293,709 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jesse in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more and Jessi in ID Indonesia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Ancient Greek Ἰεσσαί (Iessaí), from Hebrew יִשַׁי (Yishai)
Sources 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
Attested across 24 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jésse counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #192 | 293,709 | 1 in 1.1K | 284K | Jesse | 613 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈30,000 est. | ≈1 in 7K | — | Jesse | 95 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 9.6K | — | Jessi | 58 |
| CA Canada | #237 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 22 | Jesse | 280 |
| GB United Kingdom | #400 | ≈27,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.4K | 976 | Jesse | 254 |
| AU Australia | #264 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | 109 | Jesse | 249 |
| FI Finland | #713 | 12,422 | 1 in 449 | 13K | Jesse | 93 |
| NZ New Zealand | #220 | ≈3,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 30 | Jesse | 124 |
293,709 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jésse mean, and where does it come from?
- Ancient Greek Ἰεσσαί (Iessaí), from Hebrew יִשַׁי (Yishai) Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 7 other sources.
- Is Jésse a male or female name?
- Jésse is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jésse have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 294 thousand people named Jésse, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jesse.
- Where is Jésse most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jésse is densest in Finland — about 1 in 449 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jésse?
- In the United States, the national register counted 293,709 people named Jésse in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Jésse compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jésse is the 192nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A9sseThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jésse” — the 192nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.