Entry № 4909 · English origin

Jessie Jessie — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JESS-ee /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Gift (Jessie Diggins, first US woman Olympic cross-country gold)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "gift (jessie diggins, first us woman olympic cross-country gold)".

Jessie is the English diminutive of Jessica — from the Hebrew Yiskah ("to see, to behold") — the niece of Abraham in Genesis 11. Jessie Mei Li — Shadow and Bone.

Gift (Jessie Diggins, first US woman Olympic cross-country gold) — a English name.

The name in its native script.

Jessie
Transliteration
Jessie
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒɛs.i /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jessie stands.

Jessie does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jessies before her.

Real people
Jessie Diggins
American Olympic cross-country skier.
born 1991
Jessie J
English singer.
born 1988
Jessie James Decker
American country singer.
born 1988
Jessie Buckley
Irish Oscar-nominated actress.
born 1989
In fiction
Jessie
Various American culture.

Names connected to Jessie.

The number behind Jessie.

4

The Builder

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jessie reduce to 4, The Builder. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.