Definition of "Jessica"

Lorenzo: In such a night / Did Jessica steal from the wealthy Jew, / And with an unthrift love did run from Venice, / As far as Belmont.

c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act V, scene i]

She will be beautiful, of course - how could our child not be beautiful? We will name her...Jessica. Yes, that's a good name, not one of those lighter-than-air names so popular among writers of romances and fairy tales. That's a name a real little girl might have.

1996, Tad Williams, The Writer's Child, The Sandman Book of Dreams, HarperCollins, page 154

Jessica. It was, she later thought, a name well suited to whitehaired ladies with bright blue eyes.

2015, Sunjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways, Pan Macmillan