Given name
Gessica
“the Lord sees all”·“The Lord sees all”
Gessica is a form of Jessica. One Hebrew interpretation is “The Lord sees all.” Its derivation is not certain.
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Gessica carries the interpretation “the Lord sees all.” Gessica is a form of Jessica. One Hebrew interpretation is “The Lord sees all.” Its derivation is not certain.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is English.
How it developed
Gessica is used as a form of Jessica.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1977. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Gessica is a form of Jessica. The history of Jessica gives this family its wider story. Jessica is Shylock’s daughter in The Merchant of Venice. Shakespeare’s immediate inspiration is unknown, but the biblical spelling Jesca—corresponding to Iscah in Genesis 11:29—has been proposed as a starting point.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Gessica through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 200
- 0 boys · 200 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 13 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 13 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 308 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Gessica’s family of names
Gessica is a form of Jessica. In Italian usage, Gessica has a conventional equivalent in the English form Jessica. Gessica has a related form in Gessy.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 29
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Gesimaevariant
- Gessyevariant
- Gessyvariant
- Gesslynnvariant
- Gesslynvariant
- Gessinavariant
- Gessilynvariant
- Gessivariant
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Across languages 8
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Gessica
- Gessica RostellatoItalian politicianborn 1982
- Gessica GénéusHaitian actress and film directorborn 1985
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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