Meaning not yet researched.
Jesica: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #756 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #756 in 1987; #15,950 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jesica in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#15,950 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #756.
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Jesica: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #756 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 238 (1987).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Jesica, making it the 15,950th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #756, reached in 1987. That year also had the most girls given the name: 238. For comparison, it was #12,340 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jesica in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 6 babies. In all, 4,720 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,879 babies named Jesica.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 41 US girls were named Jesica; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jessica (1,054,307 babies since 1880), Jessika (5,969 babies since 1880), Jesseca (1,498 babies since 1880) and Jessyca (1,280 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jesica in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,950 | — | — |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,249 | — | — |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,068 | — | — |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,734 | — | — |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,121 | — | — |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,340 | — | — |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,248 | — | — |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,863 | — | — |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,279 | — | — |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,826 | — | — |
| 2010 | 25 | #5,503 | — | — |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,314 | — | — |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,547 | — | — |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,334 | — | — |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,924 | — | — |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,104 | — | — |
| 2004 | 81 | #2,199 | — | — |
| 2003 | 81 | #2,152 | — | — |
| 2002 | 70 | #2,318 | — | — |
| 2001 | 100 | #1,785 | — | — |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,956 | — | — |
| 1999 | 85 | #1,865 | — | — |
| 1998 | 88 | #1,781 | — | — |
| 1997 | 117 | #1,421 | — | — |
| 1996 | 97 | #1,605 | — | — |
| 1995 | 146 | #1,177 | — | — |
| 1994 | 144 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1993 | 157 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1992 | 156 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 1991 | 199 | #953 | — | — |
| 1990 | 204 | #931 | — | — |
| 1989 | 189 | #942 | — | — |
| 1988 | 213 | #846 | — | — |
| 1987 | 238 | #756 | — | — |
| 1986 | 205 | #821 | — | — |
| 1985 | 194 | #839 | — | — |
| 1984 | 170 | #883 | — | — |
| 1983 | 170 | #892 | — | — |
| 1982 | 178 | #867 | — | — |
| 1981 | 184 | #847 | — | — |
| 1980 | 138 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 1979 | 126 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1978 | 113 | #1,138 | — | — |
| 1977 | 97 | #1,244 | — | — |
| 1976 | 96 | #1,184 | — | — |
| 1975 | 66 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1974 | 35 | #2,272 | — | — |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,147 | — | — |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,625 | — | — |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,713 | — | — |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,123 | — | — |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,519 | — | — |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,328 | — | — |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,100 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).