Jesica
#14,942 for girls in 2025, 5 births
- Peak · girls
- 1987 · 238 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,720since 1966
Jesica over time
Rank among girls' names. Jesica has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #14,942 | 5 |
| 2024 | — | |
| 2023 | — | |
| 2022 | #8,032 | 13 |
| 2021 | — | |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | #9,736 | 10 |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 |
| 2017 | #11,615 | 8 |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 |
| 2014 | #8,053 | 14 |
| 2013 | #6,729 | 18 |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 |
| 2011 | #5,728 | 23 |
| 2010 | #5,414 | 25 |
| 2009 | #4,269 | 35 |
| 2008 | #3,529 | 46 |
| 2007 | #4,299 | 35 |
| 2006 | #2,916 | 59 |
| 2005 | #3,081 | 51 |
| 2004 | #2,195 | 81 |
| 2003 | #2,144 | 81 |
| 2002 | #2,310 | 70 |
| 2001 | #1,777 | 100 |
| 2000 | #1,952 | 86 |
| 1999 | #1,857 | 85 |
| 1998 | #1,774 | 88 |
| 1997 | #1,419 | 117 |
| 1996 | #1,599 | 97 |
| 1995 | #1,176 | 146 |
| 1994 | #1,217 | 144 |
| 1993 | #1,131 | 157 |
| 1992 | #1,131 | 156 |
| 1991 | #952 | 199 |
| 1990 | #930 | 204 |
| 1989 | #942 | 189 |
| 1988 | #844 | 213 |
| 1987 | #754 | 238 |
| 1986 | #820 | 205 |
| 1985 | #838 | 194 |
| 1984 | #883 | 170 |
| 1983 | #890 | 170 |
| 1982 | #865 | 178 |
| 1981 | #846 | 184 |
| 1980 | #1,034 | 138 |
| 1979 | #1,085 | 126 |
| 1978 | #1,138 | 113 |
| 1977 | #1,240 | 97 |
| 1976 | #1,182 | 96 |
| 1975 | #1,527 | 66 |
| 1974 | #2,254 | 35 |
| 1973 | #2,127 | 37 |
| 1972 | #2,598 | 27 |
| 1971 | #3,652 | 17 |
| 1970 | #4,038 | 14 |
| 1969 | #3,461 | 16 |
| 1968 | #5,147 | 8 |
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| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jesica! It came in at #5,809, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1967, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Jesica is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oklahoma#482 · 1 in 3,401
- Missouri#642 · 1 in 6,131
- New Jersey#803 · 1 in 7,254
- New York#806 · 1 in 7,023
- Florida#842 · 1 in 7,337
Best ever in a state: #263 in District of Columbia, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oklahoma | #482 | 5 | 1 in 3,401 |
| Missouri | #642 | 5 | 1 in 6,131 |
| New Jersey | #803 | 5 | 1 in 7,254 |
| New York | #806 | 14 | 1 in 7,023 |
| Florida | #842 | 6 | 1 in 7,337 |
| Michigan | #971 | 5 | 1 in 11,510 |
| California | #1,005 | 16 | 1 in 9,583 |
| Ohio | #1,005 | 5 | 1 in 13,791 |
| Texas | #1,297 | 7 | 1 in 14,770 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jesica
- 3,107 spots since 2015 (#11,835 → #14,942)
- Biggest jump: 188 spots in 1981 (#1,034 → #846)
- Biggest drop: 179 spots in 1992 (#952 → #1,131)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1987 at #754 (238 births)
- Births halved by 1996, 9 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1981–1991
- Highest: 1 in 7,305 girls born in 1987 were named Jesica (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 321,453 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 39.8% of all girls named Jesica (1,879) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 30 | #3,461 (1969) | #4,806 |
| 1970s | 628 | #1,085 (1979) | #2,084 |
| 1980s | 1,879 | #754 (1987) | #872 |
| 1990s | 1,393 | #930 (1990) | #1,319 |
| 2000s | 644 | #1,777 (2001) | #2,847 |
| 2010s | 128 | #5,414 (2010) | #9,104 |
| 2020s | 18 | #8,032 (2022) | #11,487 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jesica in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 13,556 of them was named Jesica, which outranked 90.1% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).