Jessica is Shakespeare's invention for the daughter of Shylock in The Merchant of Venice (1596) — likely from the Hebrew Yiska (Iscah), "to behold," mentioned in Genesis 11:29. Jessica Lange (born 1949) — American actress; two Oscars (Tootsie 1982, Blue Sky 1994); only one other actress (Meryl Streep) has more competitive nominations.
Subject of Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice.
Jessica does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.
In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jessica reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.