Name: Jessica
Gender: Female
Usage: Jessica, of hebrew origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Jessica are in general originating from Australia, Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, South Africa, Spain, Sweden, United Kingdom, United States of America, Venezuela.
Variants: For another variant of the name Jessica across the world, see Jéssica.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Jessica is: Rich, God is watching.
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Numerology of the first name Jessica: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 3. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: expressive, imaginative, sociable, jovial, positive, optimistic, artistic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Creative, Light-Hearted
Ruling planet: Jupiter
Colors: Purple, Lilac, Mauve
Gemstones: Amethyst
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The name Jessica is ranked on the 12th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 11433400 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.157% of the population. The name Jessica has seven characters. It means that it is relatively medium-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Jessica for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Jessica is 24 May.
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History and Origin
Jessica (also Jesica, Jessicah or Jessika) is a female given name.
The oldest written record of the name with its current spelling is found as the name of a character in Shakespeare's play The Merchant of Venice, where it belongs to the daughter of Shylock. The name may have been an Anglicisation of the Biblical Iskah (from the Hebrew: יִסְכָּה : yiskāh), the name of a daughter of Haran briefly mentioned in the Book of Genesis in the Bible. Iskah was rendered "Jeska" in English Bibles available in Shakespeare's day.
The original Hebrew name Yiskāh (יִסְכָּה), means "foresight", or being able to see the potential in the future. The Hebrew root sakhah (ס.כ.ה) means "to see," so the name Yiskah, with the added future-tense yod, implies foresight or clairvoyance. Yiskah is the niece of Abraham.
"Jessica" was the most popular female baby name throughout the 1980s and 1990s in the United States, with popularity waning starting in 1998 through the early 2000s and falling out of the Top 20 by 2004. It also rose to #1 in England and Wales in 2005, dropping to #3 in 2006. Common abbreviations of the name Jessica include "Jess" and "Jessie".
English: apparently of Shakespearian origin. This was the name of the daughter of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (1596). Shakespeare's source has not been discovered, but he presumably intended it to seem like a typically Jewish name. It may be from a biblical name that appeared, in the translations available in Shakespeare's day, as Jesca (Genesis 11: 29; Iscah in the Authorized Version). This appears in a somewhat obscure genealogical passage; Iscah appears to have been Abraham's niece.
Short form: Jess.
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