Jessie Forename
2,124th
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 476,237 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
Philippines
Highest density in:
Niue
Jessie Forename Definition:
A female name. a Scottish diminutive of Janet (q.v.), now often used as an independent name. Early examples of the name are Jessy: or The Bridal, a novel published in 1770, and Robert Tannagill’s poem ‘Jessie the Flower o’Dunblane’, which expressed his love for Janet Tennant (1770-1833) of Paisley.
Read More About This ForenameJessie Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Philippines | 90% | 176,943 | 1:599 | 89 |
| United States | 63% | 164,247 | 1:2,207 | 420 |
| Malawi | 100% | 22,252 | 1:769 | 166 |
| England | 100% | 14,917 | 1:3,727 | 473 |
| Canada | 76% | 11,780 | 1:2,813 | 534 |
| Scotland | 100% | 10,573 | 1:506 | 114 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 7,344 | 1:4,196 | 674 |
| Zimbabwe | 99% | 7,336 | 1:2,102 | 384 |
| Zambia | - | 5,489 | 1:2,888 | 481 |
| China | - | 4,394 | 1:310,891 | 21,068 |
| South Africa | 95% | 4,049 | 1:13,468 | 2,107 |
| Australia | - | 3,838 | 1:3,559 | 546 |
| Ghana | 83% | 3,371 | 1:8,005 | 832 |
| Madagascar | - | 3,325 | 1:7,107 | 1,310 |
| Papua New Guinea | 57% | 2,735 | 1:2,981 | 334 |
| Netherlands | 94% | 2,552 | 1:6,623 | 942 |
| Malaysia | 94% | 2,218 | 1:13,729 | 1,473 |
| France | 91% | 2,110 | 1:31,503 | 1,186 |
| Liberia | 65% | 1,902 | 1:2,320 | 340 |
| New Zealand | - | 1,741 | 1:2,605 | 465 |
| Nigeria | 99% | 1,688 | 1:105,192 | 5,833 |
| Belgium | 82% | 1,071 | 1:10,728 | 1,123 |
| Singapore | 84% | 1,008 | 1:6,237 | 1,163 |
| Egypt | 100% | 976 | 1:94,161 | 4,390 |
| India | 97% | 951 | 1:1,277,474 | 77,194 |
| Brazil | 73% | 857 | 1:249,984 | 10,343 |
| Congo | 84% | 755 | 1:6,635 | 919 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 685 | 1:376,589 | 30,796 |
| Denmark | - | 655 | 1:8,625 | 772 |
| Bangladesh | - | 642 | 1:248,382 | 11,817 |
| Wales | 100% | 623 | 1:4,967 | 593 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 579 | 1:3,183 | 440 |
| Hong Kong | - | 574 | 1:13,506 | 1,213 |
| Mexico | 67% | 564 | 1:220,114 | 3,767 |
| Solomon Islands | 91% | 543 | 1:1,070 | 203 |
| Chile | 99% | 508 | 1:34,660 | 1,470 |
| Costa Rica | 72% | 505 | 1:9,441 | 891 |
| Taiwan | 100% | 465 | 1:51,118 | 7,649 |
| Gabon | 83% | 441 | 1:4,271 | 886 |
| Honduras | 100% | 367 | 1:24,026 | 1,579 |
| Haiti | 62% | 366 | 1:29,309 | 2,219 |
| Cameroon | 100% | 365 | 1:59,207 | 3,663 |
| Jamaica | - | 359 | 1:8,031 | 1,005 |
| Peru | 96% | 350 | 1:90,833 | 3,425 |
| Thailand | 82% | 349 | 1:200,762 | 13,213 |
| Fiji | - | 345 | 1:2,587 | 730 |
| Qatar | 96% | 345 | 1:6,868 | 1,108 |
| Vanuatu | - | 345 | 1:759 | 206 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 318 | 1:4,281 | 765 |
| Venezuela | 53% | 278 | 1:108,640 | 4,804 |
| Kuwait | - | 275 | 1:13,765 | 1,556 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 264 | 1:27,091 | 2,652 |
| Ecuador | - | 249 | 1:71,192 | 2,089 |
| Sweden | 91% | 243 | 1:40,568 | 2,278 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 229 | 1:45,551 | 3,173 |
| Nicaragua | 80% | 217 | 1:27,734 | 1,789 |
| Kenya | 65% | 216 | 1:214,385 | 8,475 |
| Ireland | 100% | 192 | 1:24,185 | 1,093 |
| Poland | 91% | 188 | 1:202,272 | 3,614 |
| Germany | 97% | 182 | 1:531,197 | 5,468 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 166 | 1:512 | 121 |
| Bahrain | - | 163 | 1:8,274 | 1,321 |
| Guam | - | 129 | 1:1,245 | 277 |
| Swaziland | - | 128 | 1:10,158 | 1,360 |
| Guyana | 100% | 113 | 1:6,755 | 1,143 |
| Japan | - | 109 | 1:1,174,184 | 15,981 |
| Panama | 89% | 108 | 1:36,172 | 2,798 |
| Guatemala | 100% | 104 | 1:154,889 | 2,703 |
| Brunei | 100% | 102 | 1:4,113 | 410 |
| Belize | 100% | 99 | 1:3,579 | 786 |
| Norway | 100% | 96 | 1:53,462 | 2,163 |
| South Korea | - | 88 | 1:63,005 | 3,866 |
| Argentina | 100% | 86 | 1:497,363 | 3,681 |
| Spain | 60% | 77 | 1:604,285 | 6,974 |
| Cuba | - | 72 | 1:159,813 | 2,551 |
| French Polynesia | - | 70 | 1:3,970 | 724 |
| Uruguay | 100% | 62 | 1:55,284 | 1,903 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 58 | 1:943 | 196 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 56 | 1:63,398 | 1,555 |
| Botswana | 100% | 47 | 1:46,478 | 4,592 |
| Grenada | 93% | 47 | 1:2,301 | 475 |
| Portugal | - | 46 | 1:226,323 | 4,580 |
| Uganda | 80% | 45 | 1:910,154 | 16,462 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 44 | 1:1,199,735 | 20,782 |
| Saint Lucia | 54% | 43 | 1:4,135 | 712 |
| Colombia | 100% | 40 | 1:1,194,473 | 12,642 |
| Seychelles | - | 39 | 1:2,376 | 540 |
| Vietnam | - | 39 | 1:2,374,952 | 3,225 |
| Switzerland | 76% | 35 | 1:234,671 | 5,117 |
| American Samoa | - | 34 | 1:1,642 | 233 |
| Italy | 83% | 32 | 1:1,908,190 | 13,475 |
| El Salvador | - | 29 | 1:218,682 | 2,993 |
| Malta | - | 28 | 1:15,334 | 1,292 |
| Russia | 63% | 28 | 1:5,151,204 | 24,860 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 27 | 1:2,270 | 503 |
| DR Congo | 75% | 27 | 1:2,734,356 | 59,996 |
| Jersey | - | 24 | 1:4,166 | 545 |
| Ivory Coast | 90% | 21 | 1:1,098,854 | 31,525 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 20 | 1:4,970 | 915 |
| Greece | 75% | 18 | 1:607,475 | 7,461 |
| New Caledonia | 50% | 17 | 1:15,892 | 1,309 |
| Oman | - | 17 | 1:241,686 | 3,539 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 54% | 17 | 1:6,564 | 1,053 |
| Lesotho | 82% | 16 | 1:127,500 | 10,294 |
| Rwanda | - | 16 | 1:710,715 | 1,599 |
| Israel | - | 15 | 1:560,195 | 10,411 |
| Iraq | - | 14 | 1:2,501,276 | 13,388 |
| Bermuda | - | 13 | 1:4,987 | 816 |
| Macau | - | 13 | 1:46,785 | 540 |
| Niue | - | 13 | 1:123 | 22 |
| Marshall Islands | 88% | 12 | 1:4,269 | 670 |
| Hungary | 81% | 10 | 1:979,177 | 2,758 |
| Czechia | 92% | 9 | 1:1,184,018 | 3,740 |
| Estonia | - | 9 | 1:146,153 | 5,307 |
| Ethiopia | - | 9 | 1:10,840,015 | 14,737 |
| Gibraltar | - | 9 | 1:3,793 | 625 |
| Mali | - | 9 | 1:1,886,417 | 3,997 |
| Myanmar | - | 9 | 1:5,772,030 | 1,432 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 9 | 1:787,629 | 675 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 9 | 1:2,311,010 | 7,931 |
| Finland | 53% | 8 | 1:685,398 | 7,121 |
| Afghanistan | - | 7 | 1:4,660,502 | 27,414 |
| Austria | 100% | 6 | 1:1,419,034 | 8,656 |
| Namibia | - | 6 | 1:400,696 | 5,862 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | - | 6 | 1:9,144 | 1,176 |
| Bahamas | - | 5 | 1:79,874 | 1,458 |
| Faroe Islands | 100% | 5 | 1:9,825 | 1,060 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 5 | 1:21,949 | 2,239 |
| Angola | - | 4 | 1:6,741,652 | 4,704 |
| Cambodia | - | 4 | 1:4,068,332 | 35,322 |
| Cook Islands | - | 4 | 1:4,538 | 691 |
| Dominica | - | 4 | 1:18,868 | 592 |
| Guernsey | - | 4 | 1:15,833 | 609 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 4 | 1:141,012 | 2,772 |
| Tonga | - | 4 | 1:26,859 | 378 |
| Turkey | 100% | 4 | 1:19,450,427 | 45,600 |
| Georgia | - | 3 | 1:1,246,155 | 15,822 |
| Monaco | - | 3 | 1:12,822 | 1,634 |
| Senegal | 100% | 3 | 1:4,860,452 | 20,187 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 2 | 1:6,628 | 945 |
| Bolivia | - | 2 | 1:5,300,702 | 6,605 |
| Bulgaria | - | 2 | 1:3,495,195 | 19,668 |
| Cyprus | 50% | 2 | 1:435,538 | 3,859 |
| Iceland | - | 2 | 1:183,008 | 5,215 |
| Kazakhstan | 100% | 2 | 1:8,873,422 | 35,327 |
| Lithuania | - | 2 | 1:1,475,941 | 3,949 |
| Mauritius | 100% | 2 | 1:648,892 | 8,630 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 2 | 1:97,178,840 | 228,758 |
| Romania | - | 2 | 1:10,025,988 | 47,037 |
| Ukraine | - | 2 | 1:22,749,954 | 22,291 |
| Albania | - | 1 | 1:3,046,570 | 49,159 |
| Algeria | - | 1 | 1:38,176,720 | 32,669 |
| Armenia | 100% | 1 | 1:2,918,753 | 14,910 |
| Aruba | - | 1 | 1:103,780 | 2,838 |
| Barbados | - | 1 | 1:289,789 | 3,893 |
| Belarus | 100% | 1 | 1:9,482,384 | 20,892 |
| Benin | - | 1 | 1:10,575,843 | 90,010 |
| British Virgin Islands | - | 1 | 1:31,250 | 1,787 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 1 | 1:18,379,469 | 100,219 |
| Central African Republic | - | 1 | 1:4,515,390 | 1,073 |
| East Timor | - | 1 | 1:1,218,375 | 811 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 1 | 1:3,142 | 392 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Iran | - | 1 | 1:78,496,868 | 65,150 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Laos | - | 1 | 1:6,586,856 | 1,888 |
| Lebanon | - | 1 | 1:5,627,571 | 19,299 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 1 | 1:37,856 | 1,091 |
| Micronesia | - | 1 | 1:106,500 | 1,462 |
| Mongolia | - | 1 | 1:2,934,814 | 16,205 |
| Morocco | - | 1 | 1:34,348,636 | 18,260 |
| Mozambique | - | 1 | 1:27,243,357 | 5,091 |
| Nauru | 100% | 1 | 1:11,927 | 903 |
| Niger | - | 1 | 1:19,183,994 | 77,442 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Paraguay | 100% | 1 | 1:7,236,805 | 16,549 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 1 | 1:5,829 | 386 |
| Saint Martin | - | 1 | 1:35,746 | 277 |
| São Tomé and Príncipe | 100% | 1 | 1:191,997 | 5,295 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| Sudan | - | 1 | 1:37,806,975 | 10,689 |
| Suriname | - | 1 | 1:552,811 | 5,457 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | - | 1 | 1:34,707 | 1,398 |
| Yemen | - | 1 | 1:26,296,751 | 14,474 |
The alternate forms: Jéssie (9), Jessié (1) & Jèssie (1) are calculated separately.
Jessie (6,297) may also be a surname.
Jessie Forename Meaning
From Where Does The Surname Originate? meaning and history
A female name. a Scottish diminutive of Janet (q.v.), now often used as an independent name. Early examples of the name are Jessy: or The Bridal, a novel published in 1770, and Robert Tannagill’s poem ‘Jessie the Flower o’Dunblane’, which expressed his love for Janet Tennant (1770-1833) of Paisley. Burns in his last illness was nursed by Jessie Leuars. Early examples of the name in England are in Charlotte Brontë’s Shirley (1849) and Mrs Gaskell’s Cranford (1853).
— The Oxford Dictionary of Christian Names (1947) by E. G. Withycombe
Occasionally JESSY. Properly, this is a pet-form of Jessica, but in the Dominions Jessie is often bestowed as a self-containedf. ‘Christian’ by parents who have never heard of Jessica.
— Name This Child (1959) by Eric Partridge
A Scotch name, said to be used for Janet.
— Prænomina (1882) by Richard Stephen Charnock
Hebrew (feminine) - Wealthy.
— What is Your Name? (1863) by Sophy Moody
Jessie Forename Popularity
Jessie Demographics
Average Jessie Salary in
United States
$33,282 USD
Per year
Rank:
348,758 of 531,972
Percentage of all salaries earned by bearers:
0.0394972
Rank: 451 of 532,209
Percentage of national average salary:
76.46%
Sample size: 97,831 (2014)
Average Salary in
United States
$43,149 USD
Per year
Per month:
$3,596 USD
Per week:
$799 USD
Per day:
$118 USD
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