Jesiah

What Jesiah means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jesiah yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1976, with 5 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jesiah?

US: Rising: up from #1105 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #2707 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 314 boys got the name (#800 that year). First in the US records in 1976.

How common

• About 1 in 6,166 baby boys in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 22,661 baby boys in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MD (0.44 per 1,000 boys), FL (0.3 per 1,000 boys), MA (0.3 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Jesiah is #864 in the US and #2014 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 91.4% of US babies named Jesiah were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Josiah5,509 US · 220 E&W
• Jasiah607 US · 9 E&W
• Jessiah88 US
• Jahsiah48 US · 4 E&W
• Joesiah19 US
• Jossiah14 US
• Jassiah13 US
• Jusiah11 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jesiah

Boys

• Ayden#257Variant of Aidan, meaning “fire”^*
• Jett#169Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #169 vs #452 in 2025
• Emiliano#94Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #94 vs #1,359 in 2025
• Micah#90“who is like Yahweh”^*
• Malakai#213Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #491 in 2015, #213 in 2025
• Julian#25“Roman personal name”^*

For a sister

• Meadow#286Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #673 in 2015, #286 in 2025
• Adalyn#260Form of Adela, meaning “noble”^*
• Phoebe#157“bright”^*
• Nyla#236Editor’s note Up from #326 in 2015 to #236 in 2025 in the US
• Lilah#179Editor’s note Up from #314 in 2015 to #179 in 2025 in the US
• Brynlee#243Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1995, with 5 babies

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under where there are enough, topped up with common names whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jesiah’s. Place names are only included if they are in the top 300. Rank is US 2025.