Gender-neutral · #5208 in 2025
Jess
Jess: popularity and trends since 1880
- Rank
- #5208
- Born 2025
- 18
- Peak year
- 1886
Popularity, 1880–2025
per 100,000 boys born
Recent trend
Jess has been falling: its share of boys born has shrunk over the last 10 years. It now stands at under 1% of its 1886 peak.
Boy or girl?
Over the last 10 years, 20% of children named Jess were recorded as girls and 80% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.
Sounds good with
Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.