Jessey
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Perhaps metonymic for a maker of jesses for hawks; first attested Ralph Jesse 1275 RH (D)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
/dʒsi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jessey is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Nigeria than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 300K(measured from records)
- NLNetherlands1 in 26K
- NGNigeria≈1 in 138K
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.
- Nigeria (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 233 (measured from records)
- 1 in 26K (inferred from the name graph)
≈1,600 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Perhaps metonymic for a maker of jesses for hawks; first attested Ralph Jesse 1275 RH (D).
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of English Surnames
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jessey 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈1,600 est. | ≈1 in 138K | — | Jessey | 28 |
| US United States | — | 1,110 | 1 in 300K | 782 | Jessey | 233 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 667 | 1 in 26K | 526 | Jessey | 25 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 154K | — | Jessey | 24 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 768K | — | Jessey | 14 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 294K | — | Jessey | 75 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 251K | 1 | Jessey | 48 |
| MW Malawi | #186 | — | — | — | Jessey | 4 |
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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Miss Jessey Wadeb. 1859GBEnglish animal welfare activist (1859–1952)
- Jessey Sneijderb. 2006NLDutch association football player
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 26 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 143 | #113,519 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 127 | #133,048 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 121 | #141,309 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
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 does the name Jessey mean, and where does it come from?
- Perhaps metonymic for a maker of jesses for hawks; first attested Ralph Jesse 1275 RH (D). Recorded by A Dictionary of English Surnames.
- How do you pronounce Jessey?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒsi/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Jessey a male or female name?
- Jessey is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Jessey have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 1.6 thousand people named Jessey in Nigeria, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jessey.
- Where is Jessey most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jessey is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 26 thousand people — even though Nigeria holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jessey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,110 people named Jessey in 2020, about 1 in 300 thousand residents.
- How common is Jessey compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Jessey is the 186th most common given name of 3,102 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jesseyThe 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, “Jessey” — the 186th most common given name in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.