Jesika
Just over 650 women in all of Poland carry it, and hardly any are born now, so most Poles have never met one. The spelling is an English-styled take on a Hebrew name meaning "God beholds," or foresight.
Jesika Pronunciation
Jesika is pronounced ye-SHEE-kah (/jɛˈɕika/).
What Jesika means
Where Jesika comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Behind the spelling Jesika stands an English name with Hebrew roots. Jessica traces back to Iscah, or Yiskah, a woman named in the Book of Genesis as a niece of Abraham. Hebrew readers linked that name to a verb for seeing ahead, which gives the sense of foresight and of a God who beholds. In Polish the short meaning reads dar pana, dalekowzroczność.
The modern form owes much to Shakespeare. Around 1596 he gave the name Jessica to Shylock's daughter in The Merchant of Venice. Before that play the name is hard to document in English. Afterward it spread, and by the late twentieth century Jessica ranked among the most common girls' names across the English-speaking world.
In Poland the phonetic Jesika turns up on a class register or an official form at the urząd, spelled the way it sounds. It has no name-day of its own in the Polish calendar. What it keeps is older than any of that: a Hebrew name tied to sight, and to the meaning god beholds.
How many people are named Jesika
1 in 34261 women in Poland is named Jesika. 658 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1155 among female names.
Jesika's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been falling steadily since 2000.
Jesika as a middle name
Jesika is a first name for 658 women in Poland and a middle name for another 126, an 84/16 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 584th, between Andrzelika (126) and Susana (126).
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#582 Amy126
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#583 Andrzelika126
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#584 Jesika126
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#585 Susana126
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#586 Hedwig125