Yesica
A Spanish spelling of Jessica, from the Hebrew for "god beholds". In Poland it barely exists: just 33 women carry it, and no girl has been given it since at least 2000.
Yesica Pronunciation
Yesica is pronounced ih-e-SHEE-tsah (/ɨɛˈɕit͡sa/).
What Yesica means
Where Yesica comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yesica is the Spanish spelling of Jessica, and its story begins with a Hebrew root and an English playwright. Shakespeare gave the name Jessica to Shylock's daughter in The Merchant of Venice, adapting the Hebrew name Yiskah. From that root comes the sense recorded here: god beholds. Spanish-speaking families later trimmed the English spelling to Yesica, dropping the double letter and fitting it to their own sound.
The meaning god beholds points to sight, to being seen and watched over. In Polish the name is glossed as dar pana, a gift of the Lord. That reading came later, an association layered onto the older idea of beholding rather than its literal origin.
Yesica travels well. It reads clearly in Polish, where a teacher calling a class register meets no trouble with it. The name has no standard diminutive or cross-gender form on record here.
It is short and easy to say. A Polish child named Yesica carries a Hebrew root, a Spanish spelling, and one plain meaning: god beholds.
How many people are named Yesica
1 in 683146 women in Poland is named Yesica. 33 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #7071 among female names.
Yesica as a middle name
Yesica is a first name for 33 women in Poland and a middle name for another 4, an 89/11 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 4491st, between Yehudith (4) and Yohanna (4).
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#4489 Yee4
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#4490 Yehudith4
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#4491 Yesica4
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#4492 Yohanna4
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#4493 Yolima4