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Gessica

Girls' name

Variant of Jessica

Gessica has been given to 200 babies in the U.S. since 1977. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1993, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Gessica, 2006

1 in 791,000

Gessica over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Gessica: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jessica

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Gessica means

Gessica is a variant of Jessica.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Gessica is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒɛs.si.ka/ for Gessica.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Gessica → Jessica. The family’s proposed meaning is “he will see/behold/look for”, recorded in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jessica.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 200 girls were recorded with the name Gessica between 1977 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1993; its best national rank was #5,772 in 1985.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Gessica?

Gessica had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among girls only
1 in 380,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Gessica sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gessica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Gessicas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Gessica was born before 1992 — so the typical Gessica is around 33 today.

Median birth year
1992
About 33 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
43.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
200
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 43.0% of all recorded uses (86).

Is Gessica rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1993 (13)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,772
1985

Spellings of Gessica

Gessica is not the most common spelling — Jessica is, with 98.0% against Gessica's 0.02%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Gessica is used

Across 1910–2025, Gessica was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,287,539 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gessica has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Gessica around the world

Where Gessica ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1998–2018
    #5,666
    in 2018
  • France
    1974–2020
    #6,757
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1979–1979
    #627
    in 1979

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Gessica by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,772
1985
Peak year
1993
13 that year
First recorded
1977
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
200
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Gessica

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

GeseniaAlyricaGeselleGesicaFedericaShemicaTessicaZuleicaJassicaMilicaSharicaGesselleDeericaVernicaRonnicaShenicaChericaJyssicaAdonicaMauricaAnnicaTashicaShanicaGerrica

Sibling names for Gessica

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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