Yessica is a female first name.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Yessica is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Yessica. In the SmartGenius ranking, Yessica is #3,840 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Yessica.
Yessica is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Yessica - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 974 in 1995. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Yessica really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Yessica was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
25 babies were named Yessica in 2022 - that's 1 in 5,929,276 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Yessica ranked 4,546 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The odds of living in the same statae as someone named Yessica are about the same as meeting someone with blue eyes in the entire country – both odds are about 25 to 30 %. More precisely, the first name Yessica is registered in 19 states, among which are Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida or Georgia. In proportion to the female population, most women and girls with the first name Yessica live in California, and even there the name is rather special – only one in 11,642 would turn around if you called the name Yessica across California.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter Y is pretty rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.8% of all common girls' names in the US begin with Y. By the way, the most common first letters of girls' names are A, S and M, while Q, X and U are the least common initials of girls' names.
With seven letters, the name Yessica has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Since 1.8% of all girls’ names begin with a Y, this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average, but Y is by no means the rarest initial. And of course, there are single names with Y that are very popular, currently the most common girls’ name that starts with Y is Yvonne.
If your name is Yessica and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Yessica, you can simply say:
Yoyo
Elephant
Sun
Sun
Igloo
Cat
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Yessica
Yessica
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
Y
E
S
S
I
C
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
Y
E
S
S
I
C
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Yessica sounds like this:
