Jessicca
Feminine · “a name first found in Shakespeare”
Jessicca is Jessica with a doubled c, a spelling that adds a letter and changes nothing in the sound. Jessica itself first appears in Shakespeare, and one of its sharpest modern bearers used it to sign a book that shook an industry.
How old is the name Jessicca?
Jessicca first appears in US birth records in 1971 — 54 years ago. The typical Jessicca alive today was born around 1987, making them about 38 years old. About 500 people named Jessicca are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Jessicca most popular?
Jessicca peaked in 1982, reaching #3017 nationally. See the whole 1982 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Iscah (possibly) to Jessicca
The story of Jessicca
Shakespeare gave the name to Shylock's daughter, who runs away from her father's house, and from the play it slowly became an English and then an American name. Jessica Mitford, one of the famous Mitford sisters, moved to California and wrote The American Way of Death, an investigation of the funeral business so sharp and funny that it changed the laws on how funerals are sold. Jessicca doubles the c, which neither Shakespeare nor any later form did, and nothing records why.
Meaningscholars disagree
a name first found in Shakespeare
Jessica first appears in The Merchant of Venice as the name of Shylock's daughter. It is usually traced to Iscah, a minor figure in Genesis, but Shakespeare left no note, so the link is argued.
How the name formed
- Iscahpossibly
- Jessica
- Jessicca
Related forms: Jessica · Yésica
Pronouncing Jessicca
JES-ih-kuh
Stress on the first syllable, said like Jessica.
Nicknames for Jessicca
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1971
- Most girls named
- 199036 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3017reached in 1982
- Change vs 1999
- −54.5%5 in 2004, from 11
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Jessicca in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Jessica in Italian — same name
- Yésica in Spanish — spelling variant
Jessiccas among us
people named Jessicca are estimated to be alive in the US today
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
Questions parents actually ask
Fashion outlook
Jessicca sits outside the current charts, and that is its own kind of answer: naming cycles can only date the names they carried up. A name this rare has no decade stamped on it — it cannot go out of fashion, because it was never in.
Based on 146 years of naming cycles. How we read them
The trade-off
- It sounds exactly like a familiar, well-loved name.
- Jess and Jessie are ready short forms.
- Nearly everyone will write Jessica, and the second c will need spelling out.
- The doubled c may be read as a typo on forms.
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Frequently asked
- How many Jessiccas are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 500 people named Jessicca are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Jessicca in 2025?
- Jessicca is rarely given in the US today — it does not rank in the top 2000 girl names.
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- Jessicca will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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