Jessika

Where Jessika comes from

The dictionaries list Jessika as a given name — a female given name from Hebrew, of rare, modern usage, variant of Jessica — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1968
    First appearance
    #6,246 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Jessika Roswall born
    Sweden's EU Minister
  3. 1989
    Jessika Muscat born
    Maltese singer
  4. 1990
    Peak, #599
    378 babies named Jessika — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1999
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,143.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, of rare, modern usage, variant of Jessica
Namesakes
  • Jessika Muscat · Maltese singer, born 1989
  • Jessika Roswall · Sweden's EU Minister, born 1972
  • Jessika Carr · American referee and professional wrestler, born 1991
  • Jessika van Leeuwen · Dutch politician, born 1981
  • Jessika Van · Asian American actress, born 1985

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.