Girl
Jessica
The name Jessica carries the meaning "God beholds", with roots in Hebrew. It had its heyday in the 1980s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is a name nearly everyone knows in the registry. The registry counts around 1,048,287 U.S. births under this name going back to 1900.
HebrewGod beholds
EnglishCoined by Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice
Births by decade
1900s
159
1910s
411
1920s
410
1930s
499
1940s
2,204
1950s
4,558
1960s
13,728
1970s
144,018
1980s
471,493
1990s
303,854
2000s
90,807
2010s
16,146
Peaked in the 1980s · 1,048,287 total U.S. births since 1900