Jessa
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɛsə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jessa is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. Recorded meaning: 20th-century coinage from Jessie + feminine suffix -a; compare Jenna from Jenny.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 1.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- IDIndonesia≈1 in 6.9K
- USUnited States1 in 58K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 303 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈78,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Philippines, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
20th-century coinage from Jessie + feminine suffix -a; compare Jenna from Jenny.
Sources 2
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jessa 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #142 | ≈78,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.4K | 88K | Jessa | 142 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈39,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.9K | — | Jessa | 33 |
| US United States | — | 5,700 | 1 in 58K | 5.7K | Jessa | 303 |
| TH Thailand | — | ≈640 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Jessa | 21 |
| AE United Arab Emirates | — | ≈520 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Jessa | 31 |
| KW Kuwait | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 29K | — | Jessa | 7 |
| QA Qatar | — | ≈86 est. | ≈1 in 28K | — | Jessa | 8 |
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: Top 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jessa Fluxb. 1984actress
- Jessa Hintonb. 1984USAmerican Playmate
- Jessa Andersonb. 1985USmusician
- Jessa Duggarb. 1992USAmerican reality television participant
- Jessa Rhodesb. 1993USAmerican pornographic actress
- Jessa Khanb. 2001KHCambodian ju-jitsu practitioner
- Jessa Settleactress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 40 sources across 24 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 5.7K | #3,593 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 83 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 44 | #3,593 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1929 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Jessa?
- In the etymology graph, Jessica, Jessie and Jess are forms of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Jessa mean, and where does it come from?
- 20th-century coinage from Jessie + feminine suffix -a; compare Jenna from Jenny. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
- Is Jessa a male or female name?
- Jessa is a female 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 Jessa have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 78 thousand people named Jessa in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jessa.
- How do you pronounce Jessa?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɛsə/ (IPA) for English.
- How common is the name Jessa?
- In the United States, the national register counted 5,700 people named Jessa in 2020, about 1 in 58 thousand residents.
- How common is Jessa compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Jessa is the 142nd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jessa?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jessaThe 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, “Jessa” — the 142nd most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.