Jesika
Jesika was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 1,275 Americans have been recorded with it between 1970 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,240 Americans named Jesika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 28 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jesika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jesika mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jesika 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 Jesika?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,610, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
84 babies in 1991, the peak
Jesika peaked in 1991, when 84 girls were given it, #1,728 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #14,610 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,316 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,401 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,779 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,014 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,616 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 13 | #8,936 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,109 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 14 | #8,705 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,745 | 7.3 |
Every recorded year (44)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 16 | #7,650 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,111 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 35 | #4,039 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,152 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,335 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 28 | #4,365 | 15.6 |
| 2000 | 35 | #3,686 | 19.3 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,016 | 16.3 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,232 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 45 | #2,745 | 25.9 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,863 | 24.0 |
| 1995 | 55 | #2,373 | 31.3 |
| 1994 | 54 | #2,383 | 30.2 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,393 | 29.3 |
| 1992 | 68 | #2,011 | 36.9 |
| 1991 | 84 | #1,728 | 44.8 |
| 1990 | 66 | #2,034 | 34.8 |
| 1989 | 67 | #1,925 | 36.3 |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,873 | 37.1 |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,927 | 33.9 |
| 1986 | 41 | #2,435 | 23.9 |
| 1985 | 43 | #2,329 | 25.0 |
| 1984 | 28 | #3,104 | 16.6 |
| 1983 | 24 | #3,367 | 14.4 |
| 1982 | 30 | #2,978 | 17.7 |
| 1981 | 23 | #3,561 | 13.8 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,603 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 9 | #6,941 | 5.6 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,342 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,213 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,006 | 8.2 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,702 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,953 | 6.1 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,519 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jesika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jesika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 44 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jesika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jesika, and how old are they?
1,240 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,275 Americans ever recorded as Jesika. The median Jesika alive today is 34 years old; half are between 28 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,303 people named Jesika (1,302 women and girls, 1 man or boy). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,252 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 96 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 782 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 344 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 23 |
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 Jesika born?
The states with the most babies named Jesika are California, Texas and Florida, with 86% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
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 Jesika 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 1,067,095 babies since 1880, Jesika is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 436 babies recorded by SSA was a Jesika (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jesika
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 Jesika and names like it
- Compare Jesika and JessicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJesika peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jesika since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Jesika.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jesika alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.