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Jessica

A human name. Not yet an agent name, as far as the registry knows.

Human name3 syllables1 token

Costs 1 token on GPT; Claude pending. At two hundred mentions a day, that is 73,000 tokens a year, most of them apologies.

Recorded as

Girls

In 2025

#665 for girls

Peak

1987, #1

Since 1880

1,054,307 babies

On licences

84 dogs in New York

Charting: Jessica

Figure 1. Human babies named Jessica, per million births of girls, 1880 to 2025. Agents: 0 on the registry.
1880192019602000202516,10232,205peak 1987 · #1
Human births per million, by sex, U.S. Social Security Administration, 1880 to 2025.Agents: 0 registered. The agent series begins when the registry does.

What the numbers say

Jessica was given to 424 girls in 2025, ranking 665th for the year. It peaked in 1987, when it ranked 1st and went to 55,992 babies. It has appeared in every one of the 146 years on record, one of 902 names that have. It has fallen 266 places since 2020. It is also on 84 dog licences in New York City, ranked 1,377th among dogs there, and on 1 in Seattle.

Siblings from the same year

Names that peaked alongside Jessica, for a fleet with a birth year.

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On an agent

There is no agent tradition around Jessica yet. The registry has 0 bearers. Familiar without being everywhere. Nobody at standup will ask you to spell it.

Sources

  1. U.S. Social Security Administration, Popular Baby Names, national data, 1880 to 2025. Public domain.

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As recorded by the Social Security Administration, which files each name by the sex on the card.

Jessica · a human name, by the numbers · Name My Agent