Name meaning
Jessica
may mean “God beholds”
- Origin
- Hebrew, via Shakespeare
- Gender
- Mostly feminine
- Used in
- English, American, Italian, German
- Spellings
- Jessica · Jessika · Jess · Jessie
- Say it
- JES-ih-kah
- Letters
- 7
Likely meaning, sources differ
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Jessica was first used by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice for Shylock's daughter. He probably took it from Iscah, a minor biblical name usually explained as God beholds. It was one of the top names of the 1980s and 1990s.
Roots
Probably from Hebrew Yiskāh (Iscah), traditionally God beholds.
Where it is used
Popular in the US, the UK, Italy and Germany.
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Sources
Name data: NWOF dossier, Public-Census, SSA-Census, Wikidata, Wiktionary-DE, Wiktionary-EN. Meaning and background researched by our team from the sources below and written in our own words. Wikipedia and Wiktionary content is licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.