Jessica Girl
How popular is Jessica?
#665 girl name in 2025
424 baby girls were named Jessica in the US in 2025, making it the 665th most popular girl name.
Jessica popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #665 for girls (▼ 90 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 424 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-73% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #206 in 2015, #399 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1987 (55,992 girls) |
| Highest rank | #1 in 1985 (9 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Jessica counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Jessica family of names ranked #630 for girls in 2025 (#542 the year before), with 436 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Jessica is most popular
Babies named Jessica per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Washington: 0.6 per 1,000 (86 girls)
- Maryland: 0.5 per 1,000 (57 girls)
- California: 0.5 per 1,000 (446 girls)
- Nebraska: 0.5 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- Oregon: 0.5 per 1,000 (31 girls)
Jessica by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 94 | #556 |
| 1890s | 135 | #617 |
| 1900s | 159 | #760 |
| 1910s | 411 | #812 |
| 1920s | 410 | #1,054 |
| 1930s | 499 | #775 |
| 1940s | 2,204 | #353 |
| 1950s | 4,559 | #378 |
| 1960s | 13,671 | #134 |
| 1970s | 143,492 | #3 |
| 1980s | 469,510 | #1 |
| 1990s | 303,136 | #1 |
| 2000s | 90,665 | #8 |
| 2010s | 18,227 | #92 |
| 2020s | 3,557 | #399 |
Girl names about as popular as Jessica
Questions
- Is Jessica a boy or girl name?
- Jessica is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Jessica were girls.
- How popular is the name Jessica?
- 424 baby girls were named Jessica in the US in 2025, making it the 665th most popular girl name.
- When was Jessica most popular?
- Jessica peaked in 1987, when 55,992 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #1, held for 9 years starting in 1985.
- How many people are named Jessica?
- 1,054,307 babies have been named Jessica in the US since 1880. We estimate about 1,023,544 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 39.
- Where is Jessica most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Jessica was most common in Washington, at 0.6 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.