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Jessica

Pronounced /ˈd͡ʒɛsɪkə/

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1989 · #629
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:526 in 2024 (#574)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No boys were recorded as Jessica in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1989 with 252 babies, ranked #629.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1963.
  • 3,578 boys 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.

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 12 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 697 babies, 0.03 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,560 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 304 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5 babies, 0.00 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.