Is Jessica considered a classic?!

No
A nice name but not a classic

Me, I always wanted to be called Jessica. I had several (ex)boyfriends who also said they find it the most attractive female name - I guess as feminine, energetic without being twee or tacky.

it’s SO far removed from Tiffanie or Brittany…erruugh!!

I know a few older Jessica’s (all pretty, bubbly bright and popular…grrrrrrr!!) who have sisters called: Ava, Poppy, Nancy and Olivia so very varied.
Def more classic than trailer trash.

Sorry, Tondelayo
Maybe you have managed to give the name a whole new image? [hopeful]

All the Sarahs I know bar one have sisters named Rachel. I know a Rachel and Rebecca combo too. The Hannahs have sisters Miriam and Caroline.

Growing up, the families I knew with Rachels had Carolines, Miriams, and Lauras as sisters.

You mentioned my name Mathanxiety. I wonder if my US colleagues associate me with trailer parks?

I share your opinion on the category Jessica belongs in in the US (with Jennifer and Amanda).

A lot of the Jessicas I know have sisters named Samantha and/or Amber. A lot of the Jennifers have sisters named Lauren. Two Amandas I know have sisters named Lindsey. The Heathers I know have sisters named Samantha and Megan, and the Megans have sisters named Michaela...

If a Jessica managed to go to college she would join a sorority.

I think it's one of those names where you can predict what her siblings are called.

Brittany and Tiffany are trailer park names.
Amber and Heather occupy a similar niche.

I think Jessica is in a different category in the UK.

It's my name, and I don't think it's a classic. I am in my forties, and it was very unusual when I was at school, and became hugely popular when I was in my twenties. I think that the sudden huge rise in popularity means that it is very much of its time and is getting dated.

Wizened old man is a damn sight better than spotty teenager from 1984.

The baby in that recent Steve Carell movie with the very long name is called Trevor!

Mind you DS1 is called something that most right thinking Americans would recoil at as a wizened old man's name.

Trevor is currently popular in America,

Trevor.

The baby name board is to name babies. I guess within that context there is discussion of the history and perception of the names but just trying to arbitrarily classify a name on a subjective definition is a little ... esoteric.

That said, I think the difference between US and UK perceptions of names is interesting. I used to recruit a lot of US college interns and I was always bemused by the number of Brians.

I have a Jessica. It was top 10 when she was born and is still top 10 now. But I don't seem to meet many others. There's only one other in the school at the moment. It's strange.

I don't think it's especially classic but I love it anyway. I group it with names like Amy and Chloe. Just normal, always around kind of names.

I am a Jessica. The name has been in the top 10 or 20 for a really long time, but funnily enough I never meet any other Jessica's my age (mid 30s). I have met a few baby Jessica's recently.

Yep, must be approx 20 years, top 20. Though it began to become quite popular in the 80s as I think a pp has mentioned. I suppose a point to consider that if it continues to remain in the top 100, as it has, it may be considered a new classic. "Not yet" should have been my initial answer to the OP.

It's a lovely name - I don't get the hand wringing about whether it is a Timeless Classic or a Modern Classic or Eighties. It's just a bloody name.

That said I have a fabulous naff 70s / 80s name whereas my sisters are Timeless Classics. I think I like my name more than they like theirs.

I am a Jessica. The name has been in the top 10 or 20 for a really long time, but funnily enough I never meet any other Jessica's my age (mid 30s). I have met a few baby Jessica's recently.

I like my name, and also like being called Jess.

I hear it as a bit 80s or 90s, kind of like Abbie, so not super dated but not a classic either.

I'd say it wasn't a classic, an enduring classic anyway. A classic for me is a name remaining popular (e.g. top 100) throughout the decades.

Jessica is what I think of as a modern classic - so not timeless in the same way Elizabeth is but classic in the sense Jessica is popular across a few decades (in the UK at least) and across social classes. I've known of 4 baby Jessicas born in the past year which surprised me but according to the UK stats it's still extremely popular and has been for a long time.

I think of it as a 70s/80s name & definitely not a classic.

Definitely not classic in my opinion!! And I don't like it.... ;)

That's a fun name tool stopitcaroline! :)

I actually think it's very dated - I don't really get the appeal of it, I know it's very popular and I know quite a few of all ages but it just leaves me a bit cold, a bit insipid.