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Jesica

#15,946 in 2025Girls' name

Possibly he will see/behold/look for, through Jessica

Jesica has been given to 4,720 babies in the U.S. since 1966. In 2025 it ranked #15,946 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1987, with 238 recorded.

Babies named Jesica, 2025

1 in 663,000

Jesica 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jesica: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly he will see/behold/look for, through Jessica

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jesica means

Jesica belongs to the name family reached through Jesica → Jessica. Its meaning is “he will see/behold/look for”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jesica is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jessica.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,720 girls were recorded with the name Jesica between 1966 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 238 in 1987; its best national rank was #756 in 1987.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #12,335 in 2015 to #15,946 in 2025.

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 Jesica?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#15,946
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jesica 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 2025 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jesica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jesicas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jesica was born before 1989 — so the typical Jesica is around 36 today.

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
39.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
14.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,720
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 39.8% of all recorded uses (1,879).

Is Jesica 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,611
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.63×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.1%
Peak was 1987 (238)
Years since peak
38
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#756
1987

Spellings of Jesica

Jesica is not the most common spelling — Jessica is, with 78.0% against Jesica's 0.35%.

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 Jesica is used

Across 1910–2025, Jesica was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 51,396 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 20,000
  2. 2Florida1 in 25,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 25,000
  4. 4Washington1 in 33,333
  5. 5Georgia1 in 50,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 50,000
  7. 7New York1 in 50,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 50,000

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. Jesica has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jesica around the world

Where Jesica 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
    1997–2022
    #3,149
    in 2022
  • France
    1984–2014
    #7,854
    in 2014
  • Canada
    1991–2008
    #3,151
    in 2008
  • South Australia
    1982–2006
    #782
    in 2006

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

Notable people named Jesica

People whose public names include Jesica, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jesica by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#15,946
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#756
1987
Peak year
1987
238 that year
First recorded
1966
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
4,720
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Jesica

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

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Names with a curve like Jesica

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jesica, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jesica

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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