Boy
Jesse
Jesse means "Gift" and comes from Hebrew, giving it real etymological depth as a boy's name. It peaked back in the 1980s and has been gradually easing since. In the current registry, it is a name most people have come across. Since 1900, roughly 416,850 babies in the U.S. have been given this name.
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Births by decade
1900s
4,699
1910s
16,607
1920s
23,609
1930s
19,190
1940s
24,549
1950s
26,904
1960s
22,944
1970s
46,040
1980s
89,023
1990s
77,014
2000s
45,006
2010s
21,265
Peaked in the 1980s · 416,850 total U.S. births since 1900