Jessica
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jessica 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: wealthy; used by Shakespeare in 'The Merchant of Venice'.
- 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)
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)
wealthy; used by Shakespeare in 'The Merchant of Venice'
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 10 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jessica 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jessica is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Nom littéraire popularisé par Shakespeare; sans étymologie certaine, possiblement lié à Iscah.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In French, Forme féminine de Jessé, prénom biblique hébreu.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In German, ['d3esika]: weibl.
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Colei che osserva
as a nameIl grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
In Polish, alternative spelling of Dżesika
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jessica Tandyb. 1909GBBritish actress (1909–1994)
- Jessica Langeb. 1949USAmerican actress
- Jessica Collinsb. 1971USAmerican actress
- Jessica Chastainb. 1977USAmerican actress and producer (born 1977)
- Jessica Schwarzb. 1977DEGerman actress
- Jessica Simpsonb. 1980USAmerican singer and actress
- Jessica Albab. 1981USAmerican actress (born 1981)
- Jessica Bielb. 1982USAmerican actress (born 1982)
- Jessica Sulab. 1994GBBritish actress (born 1994)
- Daisy Edgar-Jonesb. 1998GBnot in their usual nameBritish actress (born 1998)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 131 sources across 70 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 956K | #28 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 458K | #89 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes no Brasil API (Census 2010 + 2022) | — | 456K | #15 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 450K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 449K | #54 |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 76K | #8 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 27K | #159 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 22K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 1.9K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 1.6K | #54 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 950 | #28 |
| GB United Kingdom | ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024) | 2024 | 483 | #95 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jessica mean, and where does it come from?
- wealthy; used by Shakespeare in 'The Merchant of Venice' Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- Is Jessica a male or female name?
- Jessica 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.
- What are other forms of the name Jessica?
- In the etymology graph, Jessie, Jessa and Jessika are forms of the same name in other languages; Jess is a recorded short or pet form.
- How common is the name Jessica?
- In the United States, the national register counted 957,447 people named Jessica in 2020, about 1 in 347 residents.
- How common is Jessica compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jessica is the 60th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Jessica have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 957 thousand people named Jessica, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jessica.
- Where is Jessica most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jessica is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 221 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
What do you want to know about Jessica?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jessicaThe same payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (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, “Jessica” — the 60th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.