Jessa

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jessa is a given name, most frequently recorded in the Philippines. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: 20th-century coinage from Jessie + feminine suffix -a; compare Jenna from Jenny.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines1 in 1.3K◐
  • IDIndonesia1 in 47K
  • USUnited States1 in 59K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈5.9K ●

across 7 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
271 ●

80K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 59K ◐

United States

Spellings & scripts●

JessaLatin · English●87K records
제싸Hangul · Korean●0 records

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

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●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Jessa is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#141129,57561K rec.—88KJessa124
US United States—5,65613K rec.1 in 59K5.7KJessa271
ID Indonesia—1,9291.8K rec.——Jessa29
CA Canada—1,242798 rec.—2Jessa76
TH Thailand—822513 rec.——Jessa21
AU Australia—660588 rec.—1Jessa70
GB United Kingdom—553483 rec.—listedJessa49
SG Singapore—234176 rec.——Jessa24
NG Nigeria—224433 rec.——Jessa20
AE United Arab Emirates—217147 rec.——Jessa31
MY Malaysia—15570 rec.——Jessa15
IT Italy—141110 rec.—listedJessa12

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English87K55%
  • Spanish44K27%
  • Portuguese6.4K4%
  • Indonesian5.7K4%
  • Swahili2.4K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English87,49255%
Spanish43,59827%
Portuguese6,3604%
Indonesian5,6764%
Swahili2,4422%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Jessa is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Croatian given name167 records spelled Jessa6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Croatian, Serbian, Slovenian

    Also written Jěssa

  • Russian given name111 records spelled Jessa5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, Russia

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Джесса

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

01020301920194019601980200027 · 1963

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Jessa in naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls), India, 1919–2011
Yearrecords
19191
19211
19272
19283
19294
19303
19316
19323
19333
19342
19359
193612
19376
19387
19399
19409
194116
19428
194315
194414
194516
194613
194716
194818
194917
195018
195122
195219
195321
195419
195517
195619
195719
195814
195922
19609
196126
196221
196327
196427
196516
196623
196724
196824
196922
197027
197121
197218
197317
197413
197510
19768
19776
19783
19796
19809
19819
19828
19836
19845
19852
19864
19874
19881
19893
19905
19915
19922
19936
19945
19959
19963
19976
19986
20111

IN naampy — India given names from state electoral rolls (in-rolls) — 75 years between 1919–2011. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1980199020002010Jessa Flux, b. 1984Jessa Hinton, b. 1984Jessa Anderson, b. 1985Jessa Duggar, b. 1992Jessa Rhodes, b. 1993Jessa Khan, b. 2001

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).

Evidence●

Attested in 39 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Jessa
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
PH PhilippinesTop 500 First Names in the Philippines (PSA FOI response, tracking202288K#52
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20205.7K#3,593
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026491—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—491#6,636
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)2026443—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—443#7,283
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010117#142,108
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020108#150,935
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—98#7,817
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—95#5,702
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202583—
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—76#9,337

Reference works 2

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 2026-09-12 data build · 252 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Jessa?
We estimate roughly 5.9 thousand people bear Jessa (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Jessa have the most bearers?
Jessa is most frequently recorded in the Philippines, where it is most often spelled jessa.
How common is Jessa compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Jessa is the 141st most common given name of 462,140 given names recorded there.
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.
What does the name Jessa mean?
Recorded meaning: 20th-century coinage from Jessie + feminine suffix -a; compare Jenna from Jenny.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 141st most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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