On March fourteenth 1993 a baby girl was named Jessica. Did this have anything to do with the fact that her mother's name was Jessica? Did her dad like the name? Well, maybe it just clicked. Anyways, I have done a little bit of research on my name so that I could appreciate it a little better.

Many celebrities have the name of Jessica. Jessica Simpson, Jessica Alba, Jessica Biel, there are more, but I am not familiar with all of them. Lots of my friends names are Jessica. Jessica Haddix, Jessica Atwater, Jessica Mackey, Jessica Bohaul, Jessica Robinson, there are so many Jessica's.

The name Jessica actually means "foresight", or the ability to see the potential in the future, but most people think that it means "wealthy" and "God's grace" because of the 'yud' on the end of the name in the Hebrew language. The name Jessica was first used in Shakespeare's play, 'The Merchant of Venice' (1596), where it is the name of the daughter of Shylock. (Don't ask me who Shylock is, I haven't ever read the play) Scholars think that Shakespeare probably based it on the biblical name ISCAH, which would have been spelled Jescha in his time. It was not commonly used as a given name until the middle of the 20th century.

I acquired this information on Wikepedia, so it might not be completely accurate, but anyways... "Jessica" was the most popular female baby name throughout the 1980s and 1990s in the United States. It also rose to # 1 in England and Wales in 2005, dropping to # 3 in 2006. Common abbreviations of the name Jessica include "Jess" and "Jessie."

Well, all in all, I think that Jessica is a good name. I hope that I can grow into it, or maybe that is what I am doing already.