Girl name origins & meanings Hebrew : Wealth Girl name variations Jesse Jessy Jess Jescie Jesea Jesee Jesey Jesie Jessea Jessee Jessey Jessia Family name origins & meanings English : presumably a variant spelling of Jessey, which, as Reaney suggests, may be a metonymic occupational name for a maker of jesses for hawks, Middle English jesse. Famous people who gave their babies this name Patti Smith Sean Combs