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Yessica

#6,102 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Yessica has been given to 3,956 babies in the U.S. since 1973. In 2025 it ranked #6,102 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1995, with 175 recorded.

Babies named Yessica, 2025

1 in 166,000

Yessica over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yessica: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yessica means

Yessica is a given name.

The naming story behind Yessica

Wikidata records Yessica as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q74388029, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,956 girls were recorded with the name Yessica between 1973 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 175 in 1995; its best national rank was #1,035 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,352 in 2020 to #6,102 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,401 in 2015 to #6,102 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.

How common is Yessica?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 166,000
20 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 80,400
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,102
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
114,896 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yessica 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 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yessica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yessicas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yessica was born before 1999 — so the typical Yessica is around 26 today.

Median birth year
1999
About 26 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
36.4% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
44.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,956
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (1,439).

Is Yessica 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
+50
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,750
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,701
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.61×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
11.4%
Peak was 1995 (175)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,035
1995

Spellings of Yessica

Yessica is not the most common spelling — Jessica is, with 97.9% against Yessica's 0.37%.

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 Yessica is used

Across 1910–2025, Yessica was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 12,500 girls, against 1 in 34,364 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

08 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 12,500
  2. 2Arizona1 in 16,667
  3. 3Texas1 in 16,667
  4. 4Nevada1 in 20,000
  5. 5Colorado1 in 50,000
  6. 6Florida1 in 50,000
  7. 7Georgia1 in 100,000
  8. 8Illinois1 in 100,000

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

Yessica around the world

Where Yessica 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.

  • Canada
    2018–2018
    #3,384
    in 2018

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Yessica

People whose public names include Yessica, 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.

Yessica by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,102
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,750
Best rank ever
#1,035
1995
Peak year
1995
175 that year
First recorded
1973
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,956
Count in 2025
20

Names similar to Yessica

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

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Names with a curve like Yessica

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

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Sibling names for Yessica

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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