Jesica
A Spanish spelling of Jessica, from the Hebrew for "god beholds". Fewer than 500 women in Poland carry it and none have been born with it in recent years, so most Poles have never met one.
Jesica Pronunciation
Jesica is pronounced ye-SHEE-tsah (/jɛˈɕit͡sa/).
What Jesica means
Where Jesica comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
The name Jesica reaches back to a Hebrew root tied to seeing, to an eye that watches. English keeps the short sense as "god beholds," while Polish shades it toward "dar pana," a gift of the lord. The gaze is the same underneath.
Its modern spread owes a lot to Shakespeare. In The Merchant of Venice, printed in 1596, he gave the name Jessica to Shylock's daughter, and that stands as the earliest known use of it in English. The single-s spelling Jesica took hold later across Spanish-speaking countries, which is why the name reads as warmly Spanish to many people today.
Picture a class register in a Polish school around the year 2000. A Jesica sits there among the Natalias and Karolinas, her name written the Spanish way, one s where English would double it.
The Hebrew beginning holds firm through all of that, plain enough to state: a name built on the idea that god beholds.
How many people are named Jesica
1 in 55940 women in Poland is named Jesica. 403 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1473 among female names.
Jesica's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Jesica as a middle name
Jesica is a first name for 403 women in Poland and a middle name for another 130, a 76/24 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 575th, between Camila (130) and Kira (130).
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#573 Andżelina130
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#574 Camila130
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#575 Jesica130
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#576 Kira130
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#577 Otolia130