Jessika
Jessika was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,475 among girls’ names; 5,969 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,830 Americans named Jessika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 27 and 38.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jessika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jessika mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jessika is “a female given name from Hebrew, of rare, modern usage, variant of Jessica”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jessika?
#12,475 among girls’ names, 2025
Jessika fell from #5,201 in 2015 to #12,475 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.6 to 4.4 per million.
378 babies in 1990, the peak
Jessika peaked in 1990, when 378 girls were given it, #599 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,475 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,343 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,193 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 9 | #10,755 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,203 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 17 | #6,856 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,141 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,153 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,760 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 26 | #5,201 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (56)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 34 | #4,310 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,475 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 47 | #3,436 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 54 | #3,105 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,817 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,808 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 61 | #2,905 | 0.03 |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,409 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 85 | #2,257 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 103 | #1,882 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 89 | #2,050 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 88 | #2,033 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 127 | #1,494 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 127 | #1,480 | 0.07 |
| 2000 | 176 | #1,150 | 0.10 |
| 1999 | 171 | #1,146 | 0.10 |
| 1998 | 213 | #963 | 0.12 |
| 1997 | 225 | #896 | 0.13 |
| 1996 | 223 | #887 | 0.13 |
| 1995 | 276 | #739 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 258 | #791 | 0.14 |
| 1993 | 290 | #729 | 0.16 |
| 1992 | 327 | #673 | 0.18 |
| 1991 | 311 | #688 | 0.17 |
| 1990 | 378 | #599 | 0.20 |
| 1989 | 270 | #730 | 0.15 |
| 1988 | 272 | #701 | 0.15 |
| 1987 | 278 | #669 | 0.16 |
| 1986 | 170 | #935 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 156 | #981 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 120 | #1,139 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 83 | #1,416 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 87 | #1,407 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 86 | #1,425 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,558 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 68 | #1,650 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 57 | #1,791 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 60 | #1,724 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 47 | #1,917 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 32 | #2,480 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,410 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,227 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,910 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 9 | #5,715 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,018 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,551 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jessika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jessika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 56 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jessika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jessika, and how old are they?
5,830 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,969 Americans ever recorded as Jessika. The median Jessika alive today is 33 years old; half are between 27 and 38.
The 2020 Census counted 6,035 people named Jessika (6,032 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,833 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 397 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,490 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,750 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 194 |
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 Jessika born?
The states with the most babies named Jessika are California, Texas and Florida, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,055 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 553 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Florida | 263 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 213 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 212 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 169 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 130 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 124 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 107 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Indiana | 98 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Jessika is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jessika is most over-represented in California: since 1968 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 Jessika 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 1,070,039 babies since 1880, Jessika is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 436 babies (1.6%), again the second 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 Jessika
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 Jessika and names like it
- Compare Jessika and JessicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJessika peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jessika since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Jessika.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jessika alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.