Dżesika
A Polonized spelling of Jessica, Hebrew at root and read here as "God's gift". Only about 1,150 women in Poland carry it, and it's nearly gone now: no newborn girls took it last year.
Dżesika Pronunciation
Dżesika is pronounced je-SHEE-kah (/d͡ʐɛˈɕika/).
What Dżesika means
Where Dżesika comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Dżesika comes into Polish from the English Jessica, whose oldest layer is Hebrew. William Shakespeare shaped the modern form for Shylock's daughter in The Merchant of Venice, and most scholars connect his spelling to Yiskah (Iscah), a woman named in the Book of Genesis. That older root points toward seeing ahead, which is why English dictionaries gloss the name as "to behold, foresight."
In Poland the spelling was made local. Dż stepped in for the English J, and the name settled onto class registers through the 1990s. A teacher reading roll call meets it beside older Polish names, and it holds its place without apology.
The Polish reading "dar pana," gift of the Lord, attached itself later, after the name had already traveled far from Genesis. It is a meaning laid over the Hebrew, not the origin underneath. Foresight came first.
How many people are named Dżesika
1 in 19502 women in Poland is named Dżesika. 1,156 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #899 among female names.
Dżesika's popularity over time
0 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Where Dżesika is most popular
Dżesika is most popular in Opole, 2579% above the national average (4 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Łódź (+631%).
Dżesika as a middle name
Dżesika is a first name for 1,156 women in Poland and a middle name for another 285, an 80/20 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 399th, between Radosława (286) and Nicol (285).
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288Zoe
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286Radosława
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399285Dżesika
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285Nicol
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284Nikol