Jess Boy Name

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The table below indicates the number of times the name Jess has been given to baby boys in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby boys in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Jess**
Use of the Name Jess for Boys During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
23,622	10,059	3,684	280	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Jess has been given to baby boys and baby girls each year, from 1880 through 2004. Jess last appeared in the top thousand boy or girl names during 1996, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to boys or girls, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Jess**
	Used as a Boy Name		Used as a Girl Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	128	103
1881	147	85
1882	118	122
1883	116	112
1884	116	124
1885	115	119
1886	111	140
1887	109	124
1888	122	132
1889	116	121
1890	128	114
1891	151	87
1892	148	108
1893	140	107
1894	146	104
1895	153	102
1896	189	87
1897	146	110
1898	159	108
1899	170	86
1900	164	128
1901	175	85
1902	193	86
1903	195	81
1904	179	102
1905	208	85
1906	238	67
1907	214	89
1908	222	87
1909	236	87
1910	231	103
1911	250	106
1912	269	171
1913	297	179
1914	271	259
1915	193	576
1916	222	483
1917	272	352
1918	269	391
1919	287	353
1920	317	333
1921	317	336
1922	383	248
1923	355	279
1924	373	262
1925	361	269
1926	380	236
1927	358	268
1928	426	195
1929	384	226
1930	405	207
1931	452	155
1932	401	198
1933	406	176
1934	441	164
1935	439	167
1936	449	157
1937	450	156
1938	468	153
1939	447	165
1940	447	169
1941	463	163
1942	449	190
1943	455	188
1944	452	179
1945	459	167
1946	428	221
1947	423	258
1948	446	222
1949	436	235
1950	480	194
1951	445	228
1952	445	251
1953	461	238
1954	462	245
1955	455	263
1956	460	270
1957	477	268
1958	490	253
1959	519	228
1960	467	288
1961	470	299
1962	465	293
1963	465	286
1964	525	221
1965	565	182
1966	537	200
1967	548	184
1968	583	168
1969	569	190
1970	586	191
1971	526	232
1972	507	242
1973	465	283
1974	454	309
1975	475	284
1976	472	278
1977	454	311
1978	425	346
1979	469	306
1980	496	292
1981	505	277
1982	462	337
1983	484	306
1984	530	261
1985	541	262
1986	576	240
1987	615	217
1988	669	199
1989	752	172
1990	694	214
1991	753	183
1992	873	145
1993	871	149
1994	885	150
1995	950	136
1996	911	144
Totals:		23,622		0

During the last 125 years, parents have used Jess as a boy's name nearly 100% of the time and hardly ever as a girl's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Jess appears in the top 1,000 boy names only 117 times during the last 125 years.

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