Jessica (given name)
Jessica is a female given name.
The oldest written record of the name with its current spelling is found as the name of the Shakespearean character Jessica, from the play The Merchant of Venice. The name may have been an Anglicisation of the biblical Iscah, the name of a daughter of Haran briefly mentioned in the Book of Genesis. Iscah was rendered "Iesca" in the Matthew Bible version available in Shakespeare's day.
"Jessica" was the first- or second-most popular female baby name in the United States from 1981 to 1997 before falling out of the Top 20 in 2004. It also rose to #1 in England and Wales in 2005, dropping to #3 in 2006. Common nicknames of the name Jessica include "Jess" and "Jessie".
People with the given name
- Jessica Abel, American comic book writer and artist
- Jessica Alba, American actress
- Jessica Andersson, Swedish singer
- Jessica Andrews, American country music singer
- Jessica Antiles, American swimmer
- Jessica Berscheid, Luxembourgish footballer
- Jessica Biel, American actress and model
- Jessica Brown Findlay, English actress
- Jessica Burciaga, American model
- Jessica Caban, American model, dancer and actress
- Jessica Capshaw, American actress
- Jessica Care Moore, American poet
- Jessica Chastain, American actress
- Jessica Cirio, Argentine model
- Jessica-Jane Clement, British glamour model, actress and TV presenter
- Jessi Combs, American racer and TV presenter
- Jessica Cornish, known as Jessie J, British singer-songwriter
- Jessica Davenport, American basketball player
- Jessica De Gouw, Australian actress
- Jessica Deglau, Canadian swimmer
- Jessica DiCicco, American actress
- Jessica Drake, American pornographic actress
- Jessica Dubroff, American pilot trainee
- Jessica Eddie, English rower
- Jessica Ennis, British athlete
- Jessica Eye, American mixed martial artist
- Jessica Falkholt, Australian actress
- Jessica Fodera, American musician, singer and artist
- Jessica Folcker, Swedish singer
- Jessica Fox , French-Australian slalom canoer
- Jessica Friedman, American actress
- Jessica Garlick, Welsh singer
- Jessica Glynne, better known as Jess Glynne, English singer-songwriter
- Jessica Gomes, Australian model
- Jessica Harp, American country singer-songwriter and guitarist
- Jessica Heeringa, American murder victim
- Jessica Henwick, British actress and writer
- Jessica Hogg, Welsh artistic gymnast
- Jessica Hynes, British actress, writer and comedian
- Jessica Iskandar, Indonesian actress and model
- Jessica Iwanson, Swedish choreographer and artistic director
- Jessica Jackley, American businesswoman and entrepreneur
- Jessica Jaymes, American pornographic actress
- Jessica Joseph, American ice dancer
- Jessica Jung, American-Korean pop singer
- Jessica Knappett, English comedy writer and actress
- Jessica Lange, American actress
- Jessica Largey, American chef
- Jessica Lee Rose, American-New Zealand actress
- Jessica Lowndes, Canadian actress and singer-songwriter
- Jessica Lu, American actress
- Jessica Lucas, Canadian actress and singer
- Jessica Makinson, American actress
- Jessica Martin, British actress and comedian
- Jessica Mauboy, Australian singer
- Jessica McClure, known as "Baby Jessica" when rescued from a well as a toddler
- Jessica Meir,, American astronaut, biologist, and underwater diver
- Jessica Mendoza, American softball player and sportscaster
- Jessica Mitford, Anglo-American writer
- Jessica Moore , American basketball player
- Jessica Moore , American journalist
- Jessica Moore , Australian tennis player
- Jessica Nelson , British singer
- Jessica Nigri, American cosplay enthusiast, promotional model, voice actress and Internet personality
- Jessica Origliasso, Australian musician
- Jessica Paré, Canadian actress
- Jessica Kelly Siobhan Reilly, known as Kelly Reilly, English actress
- Jessica Ridgeway, American murder victim
- Jessica Rossi, Italian sport shooter
- Jessica Rothe, American actress
- Jessica Sanchez, American recording artist
- Jessica Savitch, American TV news reporter
- Jessica Serfaty, American model, contestant at America's Next Top Model
- Jessica Simpson, American pop singer and actress
- Jessica Sklar, American mathematician
- Jessica Smith , American editor and activist
- Jessica Soho, Filipina broadcast journalist
- Jessica Stam, Canadian model
- Jessica Stasinowsky, Australian convicted murderer
- Jessica Steinhauser, known as Asia Carrera, American pornographic actress
- Jessica Stroup, American actress and model
- Jessica Sula, Welsh actress
- Jessica Sutta, American dancer and singer
- Jessica Szohr, American actress
- Jessica Tandy, English-American actress
- Jessica Taylor, English singer
- Jessica Upshaw, American politician and lawyer
- Jessica Utts, American statistician
- Jessica Varnish, British track cyclist
- Jessica Vetter, American ice hockey player
- Jessica Voorsanger, American artist
- Jessica Wahls, German pop singer
- Jessica Walter, American actress
- Jessica White, American Model
- Jessica Wich, German footballer
- Jessica Williams , American pianist and composer
- Jessica Wong, Canadian ice hockey player
- Jessica L. Wright, American politician
- Jessica Keenan Wynn, American actress
- Jessica Yellin, American journalist
- Jessica Yu, American film director
- Jessica Zafra, Filipina writer
- Jessica Zajicek, American actress
- Jessica Zelinka, Canadian pentathlete
- Jessica Zhu, Chinese-American pianist
People with the middle name
- Sarah Jessica Parker, American actress, model, singer and producer
Fictional characters
- Jessica Cruz: Green Lantern, superhero in DC Comics universe
- Jessica, a character in William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice
- Lady Jessica, a character in the Dune science fiction universe
- Jessica, a character in Stitch!
- Jessica Baker, a character in the 2003 film Cheaper by the Dozen and its sequel
- Jessica "Jessie" Bannon, a character in the television series The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest
- Jessica Darling, a character in a novel series by Megan McCafferty
- Jessica Davis, a character in the novel and Netflix series 13 Reasons Why
- Jessica Day, a character in the sitcom New Girl
- Jessica Drew, a character in the Marvel Comics Universe series Spider-Woman
- Jessica Fisher, a character in the television series Waterloo Road
- Jessica Fletcher, a character in the American television mystery series Murder, She Wrote
- Jessica Glitter, a character in How I Met Your Mother
- Jessica Hamby, a character in the HBO series True Blood
- Jessica James, a character in The Incredible Jessica James
- Jessica Jones, a superhero in the Marvel Comics Universe
- Jessica Lovejoy, a character in the television series The Simpsons
- Jessica Moore, a character in the TV series Supernatural
- Jessica Morgan, the main human protagonist of The Transformers Season 3, "The Return of Optimus Prime"
- Jessica Rabbit, a character in the Who Framed Roger Rabbit series
- Jessica "Jesse" Miriam Reeves, a character in the 2002 film Queen of the Damned
- Jessica Riley, a playable character in the survival horror game Until Dawn
- Jessica Ruiz, a character in the television series The Electric Company
- Jessica Sanders, a character in the NBC science fiction drama Heroes
- Jessica Stanley, a character in the Twilight Saga written by Stephenie Meyer
- Jessica Tate, a character in the American TV series Soap
- Jessica Ushiromiya, a character from Umineko no Naku Koro ni
- Jessica Wakefield, a character in Sweet Valley High and Sweet Valley Twins
- Jessica Warren, a character in the television series Bones