Jese
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- JES-ee
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #7,675 for boys
Jese is a boys' name of Hebrew origin. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).
What does Jese mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Jesse
In the Bible, Jesse of Bethlehem is the father of King David; the Tree of Jesse depicts Jesus's ancestry.
Meaning borrowed from Jesse. More on Wiktionary.
Is Jese a girl's or a boy's name?
Jese is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Jese in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,675th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 170,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Jese, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 6,616th. Its busiest year was 2014, with 33 boys. It first appears in the records in 1973.
Half of all the boys named Jese in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 2,170 boys in the US were given Jese or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #186, up from #7,675 for this spelling alone.
Jese in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,675 |
| 2024 | 8 | #8,982 |
| 2023 | 6 | #10,815 |
| 2022 | 10 | #7,762 |
| 2021 | 6 | #10,794 |
| 2020 | 12 | #6,616 |
| 2019 | 11 | #7,168 |
| 2018 | 7 | #9,664 |
| 2017 | 16 | #5,522 |
| 2016 | 19 | #4,941 |
| 2015 | 24 | #4,177 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,295 |
| 2013 | 8 | #8,784 |
| 2012 | 8 | #8,858 |
| 2011 | 5 | #12,280 |
| 2010 | 8 | #8,797 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 9 | #8,319 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,169 |
| 2006 | 11 | #6,899 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,089 |
| 2004 | 11 | #6,514 |
| 2003 | 12 | #5,870 |
| 2002 | 5 | #10,660 |
| 2001 | 0 | – |
| 2000 | 8 | #7,409 |
| 1999 | 6 | #8,697 |
| 1998 | 9 | #6,308 |
| 1997 | 0 | – |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,606 |
| 1995 | 11 | #5,118 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,531 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,440 |
| 1992 | 0 | – |
| 1991 | 12 | #4,468 |
| 1990 | 12 | #4,401 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,521 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,445 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,567 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,453 |
| 1985 | 13 | #3,398 |
| 1984 | 10 | #3,922 |
| 1983 | 0 | – |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,232 |
| 1981 | 0 | – |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,523 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,353 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,056 |
| 1977 | 5 | #5,843 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,010 |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,099 |
Nicknames for Jese
- Jess 3 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Jese
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Jake, Jacob, Jonah, Judah, Jace, Jude, Josiah, Johan, Josue, Jordan, Noah, Jonas
Other spellings of Jese
Names related to Jese
More Hebrew names
Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo, Elsie, Levi
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Jese: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jese, updated 20 October 2026.