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Jessicah

Girls' name

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

Jessicah has been given to 295 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1992, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Jessicah, 2004

1 in 637,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jessicah: meaning, origin, and history

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

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jessicah means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Jessicah is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jessica.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 295 girls were recorded with the name Jessicah between 1975 and 2004. Its highest annual count was 21 in 1992; its best national rank was #4,548 in 1987.

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 Jessicah?

Jessicah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2004, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2004
1 in 637,000
6 of 3,820,181 births
Among girls only
1 in 306,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2004
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
441,326 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jessicah 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 2004 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 441,326 children born in 2004 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jessicah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jessicahs were born

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

Median birth year
1989
About 36 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
39.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
295
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 39.7% of all recorded uses (117).

Is Jessicah 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1992 (21)
Years since peak
33
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,548
1987

Spellings of Jessicah

Jessicah is not the most common spelling — Jessica is, with 98.1% against Jessicah's 0.03%.

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.

Jessicah around the world

Where Jessicah 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.

  • South Australia
    1988–1993
    #712
    in 1993

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jessicah 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
—
Best rank ever
#4,548
1987
Peak year
1992
21 that year
First recorded
1975
Last recorded
2004
All-time count
295
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jessicah

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

JesselynJesslynnJessamyJessiahJessiciaJesselleJessamineJessiccaJessalynnJessenyaJessilynJeslynnJesalynJessamynJessiecaJestinaJeslinJessciaJessikahJeselleJesicahJessiaJessykaJessly

Sibling names for Jessicah

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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