Jess is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Jess is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 boys have been named Jess. In the SmartGenius ranking, Jess is #3,417 on the list of most common boys names. In the entire USA, approximately 16,260 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Jess. That is 0.00 % of all living Americans.
For more than 140 years, parents decide to name their son Jess annualy. This means that there have been boys named Jess who witnessed the first Labor Day parade in the U.S. or followed Albert Einstein's career. The name has 'always been there', but never ranked in the top 100, and thus men named Jess have consistently been special. The name was particularly popular a long time ago in the 19th century. In one particular year, long before the first passenger flight and even before there was the first real radio, parents liked Jess even more than any other time: in 1887, it holds its present record at rank #103 in the list of the most popular boys' names.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Jess was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Jess has never been ranked higher than #103. In 2022, he rivaled the 3,638 names that preceded him on the list. In total, 25 boys named Jess were born in this year. For comparison: 30 years earlier, in 1992, when possibly the parents of the now very young Jess were born, there have been 146 newborns who received this name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter J is the most popular first letter for boys’ names. 10.1% of all common boys’ names in the US start with this letter. The second most common first letter in boys’ names is A.
With four letters, the name Jess is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 10.1% of all boys’ names start with a J, this initial letter occurs nearly three times as often as all other letters on average. And, by the way, of all the boys’ names that begin with the letter J, the name James is the most common.
If your name is Jess and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Jess, you can simply say:
Joker
Elephant
Sun
Sun
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Jess
Jess
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
J
E
S
S
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
J
E
S
S
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Jess sounds like this:
