Jessīca
given name · Latin script
Jessīca is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 60th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from English Jessica, popular at the end of the 20th century.
- ECEcuador1 in 221(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 302
- USUnited States1 in 347
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #111 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 649 (measured from records)
- 1 in 221 (inferred from the name graph)
957,447 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jessica in US United States, BR Brazil, GB United Kingdom and 6 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Borrowed from English Jessica, popular at the end of the 20th century.
Sources 5
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
- Nordic Names
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jessīca counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #60 | 957,447 | 1 in 347 | 956K | Jessica | 649 |
| BR Brazil | #88 | 450,167 | 1 in 470 | 458K | Jessica | 220 |
| ID Indonesia | #370 | ≈200,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Jessica | 209 |
| PH Philippines | #85 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 863 | — | Jessica | 159 |
| GB United Kingdom | #120 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 619 | 483 | Jessica | 387 |
| AU Australia | #38 | ≈84,000 est. | ≈1 in 302 | 131 | Jessica | 311 |
| EC Ecuador | #56 | 76,328 | 1 in 221 | 76K | Jessica | 77 |
| SE Sweden | #41 | 27,001 | 1 in 378 | 27K | Jessica | 150 |
| LA Laos | #144 | ≈19,000 est. | ≈1 in 382 | — | Jessica | 20 |
957,447 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jessīca mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from English Jessica, popular at the end of the 20th century. Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and 3 other sources.
- Is Jessīca a male or female name?
- Jessīca is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jessīca have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 957 thousand people named Jessīca, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jessica.
- Where is Jessīca most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jessīca is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 221 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jessīca?
- In the United States, the national register counted 957,447 people named Jessīca in 2020, about 1 in 347 residents.
- How common is Jessīca compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jessīca is the 60th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jess%C4%ABcaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. Rate-limited for casual use; a free API key gives 1,000 requests a day, and bulk access is licensed separately.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jessīca” — the 60th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.