Jessica
483
Babies in 2024
-84%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 6.71k
-16%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Jessica
Jessica peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (6,711 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 483 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Jessica reached its peak in 1996, when 6,711 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #3 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 483 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 105,041 girls have been officially registered with the name Jessica in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 17,932 girls were registered with the name, starting from 2,995 in 2014 and ending at 483 in 2024.