Jesica
Jesica was given to 5 girls in 2025, #15,946 among girls’ names; 4,720 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,580 Americans named Jesica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 30 and 43.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jesica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jesica mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jesica is “a female given name, variant of Jessica.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jesica?
#15,946 among girls’ names, 2025
Jesica fell from #12,335 in 2015 to #15,946 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.1 per million.
238 babies in 1987, the peak
Jesica peaked in 1987, when 238 girls were given it, #756 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #15,946 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,244 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,063 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,729 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 8 | #12,117 | under 0.01 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,335 | under 0.01 |
| 2014 | 14 | #8,243 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,859 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,275 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,823 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 25 | #5,501 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 35 | #4,313 | 0.02 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,546 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 35 | #4,333 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,923 | 0.03 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,100 | 0.03 |
| 2004 | 81 | #2,196 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 81 | #2,149 | 0.04 |
| 2002 | 70 | #2,315 | 0.04 |
| 2001 | 100 | #1,782 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 86 | #1,952 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 85 | #1,862 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 88 | #1,778 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 117 | #1,419 | 0.07 |
| 1996 | 97 | #1,603 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 146 | #1,174 | 0.08 |
| 1994 | 144 | #1,216 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 157 | #1,131 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 156 | #1,131 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 199 | #951 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 204 | #929 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 189 | #939 | 0.10 |
| 1988 | 213 | #846 | 0.12 |
| 1987 | 238 | #756 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 205 | #821 | 0.12 |
| 1985 | 194 | #839 | 0.11 |
| 1984 | 170 | #883 | 0.10 |
| 1983 | 170 | #892 | 0.10 |
| 1982 | 178 | #867 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 184 | #847 | 0.11 |
| 1980 | 138 | #1,037 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 126 | #1,090 | 0.08 |
| 1978 | 113 | #1,138 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 97 | #1,244 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 96 | #1,184 | 0.07 |
| 1975 | 66 | #1,535 | 0.05 |
| 1974 | 35 | #2,272 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,147 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 27 | #2,625 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,711 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,122 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,518 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #5,327 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,099 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jesica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jesica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 54 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jesica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jesica, and how old are they?
4,580 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 4,720 Americans ever recorded as Jesica. The median Jesica alive today is 37 years old; half are between 30 and 43.
The 2020 Census counted 5,732 people named Jesica (5,725 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,601 born in the U.S. The Census count is 25% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 753 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,760 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 987 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 80 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jesica born?
The states with the most babies named Jesica are California, Texas and New York, with 58% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 833 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 460 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 258 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 213 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 171 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 95 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 84 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 84 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 74 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 70 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Jesica is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jesica is most over-represented in California: since 1966 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jesica with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,069,990 babies since 1880, Jesica is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 436 babies (1.1%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jesica
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jesica and names like it
- Compare Jesica and JessicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJesica peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jesica since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Jesica.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jesica alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.