First name origins & meanings:
- Hebrew: Wealth
- Hebrew: Wealth
First name variations: Jessie, Jessy, Jess, Jescie, Jesea, Jesee, Jesey, Jesie, Jessé, Jessea, Jessee, Jessey, Jessia, Jescey, Jesie, Jessyie, Jesy, Jezzey, Jezzi, Jezzie, Jezzy, Jescee, Jese, Jesee, Jesi, Jezze, Jezzee
Last name origins & meanings:
- North German: from a short form of the personal name
Jesper, a Low German form of Kaspar.
- South German: from a reduced form of the personal name Johannes (see
John).
- Eastern German (of Slavic origin): topographic name
from Czech jes(en) ‘ash tree’.
- English: from a short form
of Jessup.
- French: from Old French jaisse
‘chick pea’; probably a metonymic occupational name for a grower of
chick peas or a topographic name.
Famous people who gave their babies this name:
Bob Dylan,
Don Johnson,
Sam Shepherd
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