Jessey
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jessey is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Western Frisian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Perhaps metonymic for a maker of jesses for hawks; first attested Ralph Jesse 1275 RH (D).
- NLNetherlands1 in 33K◐
- USUnited States1 in 425K
- MWMalawi1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈1.4K ●
- Sources
- 205 ●
- 1 in 33K ◐
across 4 countries
8.4K records
Official registry-verified
Netherlands
Meaning & origin●
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●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 782 | 6.2K rec. | 1 in 425K | 782 | Jessey | 205 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 526△ | 216 rec. | 1 in 33K | 526 | Jessey | 26 |
| AU Australia | — | 334 | 342 rec. | — | 1 | Jessey | 44 |
| CA Canada | — | 321 | 219 rec. | — | 6 | Jessey | 53 |
| NG Nigeria | — | 307 | 385 rec. | — | — | Jessey | 30 |
| MW Malawi | #184 | 245 | 0 rec. | — | — | Jessey | 4 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 199 | 327 rec. | — | — | Jessey | 39 |
| MY Malaysia | — | 149 | 117 rec. | — | — | Jessey | 23 |
| PH Philippines | — | 119 | 92 rec. | — | — | Jessey | 12 |
| GH Ghana | — | 55 | 35 rec. | — | — | Jessey | 21 |
| BR Brazil | — | 48 | 0 rec. | 1 in 4.4M | 52 | — | 1 |
| DE Germany | — | 46 | 67 rec. | — | 1 | Jessey | 18 |
Roughly 782 people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 425K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English8.1K61%
- Western Frisian9857%
- Spanish7396%
- Dutch7185%
- Portuguese6795%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 8,120 | 61% |
| Western Frisian | 985 | 7% |
| Spanish | 739 | 6% |
| Dutch | 718 | 5% |
| Portuguese | 679 | 5% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1920 | 8 |
| 1921 | 7 |
| 1922 | 6 |
| 1923 | 7 |
| 1925 | 8 |
| 1927 | 5 |
| 1929 | 7 |
| 1931 | 5 |
| 1933 | 5 |
| 1956 | 6 |
| 1961 | 5 |
| 1965 | 7 |
| 1970 | 6 |
| 1972 | 6 |
| 1973 | 5 |
| 1974 | 11 |
| 1976 | 11 |
| 1977 | 7 |
| 1978 | 7 |
| 1979 | 11 |
| 1980 | 17 |
| 1981 | 22 |
| 1982 | 16 |
| 1983 | 22 |
| 1984 | 20 |
| 1985 | 25 |
| 1986 | 22 |
| 1987 | 22 |
| 1988 | 21 |
| 1989 | 41 |
| 1990 | 42 |
| 1991 | 41 |
| 1992 | 33 |
| 1993 | 35 |
| 1994 | 48 |
| 1995 | 36 |
| 1996 | 26 |
| 1997 | 22 |
| 1998 | 23 |
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 22 |
| 2001 | 16 |
| 2002 | 22 |
| 2003 | 8 |
| 2004 | 14 |
| 2005 | 13 |
| 2006 | 8 |
| 2007 | 16 |
| 2008 | 18 |
| 2009 | 21 |
| 2010 | 17 |
| 2011 | 11 |
| 2013 | 9 |
| 2014 | 6 |
| 2015 | 9 |
| 2016 | 6 |
| 2017 | 7 |
| 2018 | 9 |
| 2019 | 8 |
| 2020 | 5 |
| 2022 | 7 |
| 2025 | 7 |
US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 62 years between 1920–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- 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).
Evidence●
Attested in 26 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 782 | #11,508 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 526 | #1,580 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 459 | #3,382 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 328 | #11,508 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 143 | #113,519 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 141 | #4,485 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 127 | #133,048 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 121 | #141,309 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 118 | #7,302 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 52 | #47,219 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 48 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1994 | 48 | — |
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 2026-09-12 data build · 185 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Jessey?
- We estimate roughly 1.4 thousand people bear Jessey (counting its spellings and scripts) across 4 countries in our records.
- In which country does Jessey have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 782 people bear Jessey in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled jessey.
- How common is Jessey compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Jessey is the 184th most common given name of 2,887 given names recorded there.
- 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.
- What does the name Jessey mean?
- Recorded meaning: Perhaps metonymic for a maker of jesses for hawks; first attested Ralph Jesse 1275 RH (D).
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About this data
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, “Jessey” — the 184th most common given name in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.