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Jessica
Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛsɪkə/
Rank in 2024
#574
Born in 2024
526
Peak year
1987 · #1
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 526 girls were named Jessica, about 1 in every 3,067.
- It peaked in 1987 with 55,996 babies, ranked #1.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 1,050,306 girls have been named Jessica since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Jessica per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 0.3Boomers1946–64
- 7.3Gen X1965–80
- 24.2Millennials1981–96
- 5.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.6Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 879 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 1,223 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Boomers: 10,497 babies, 0.29 per 1,000. Gen X: 186,713 babies, 7.31 per 1,000. Millennials: 683,091 babies, 24.19 per 1,000. Gen Z: 154,458 babies, 5.32 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 13,193 babies, 0.65 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
First used by William Shakespeare in Merchant of Venice in the early 17th century, probably from Hebrew יִסְכָּה (yiská, “Iscah in Genesis 11:29, Jescha in the Wycliffe version”), a proper name meaning "he will see/behold/look for", the 3ms imperfect form of a verb ultimately from the root ס־כ־ה (s-k-h), itself an alternative form of the root שׂ־כ־ה (ś-k-h), both of which mean "to see, behold, look for". By folk etymology seen as an elaborate form of Jessie, from Jane.
- A female given name from Hebrew.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈd͡ʒɛsɪkə/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Jessica, CC BY-SA 4.0.