The meaning of my name.

My first name Jessica is origin Hebrew. It means Woman of Wealth, God Beholds, God sees. The name was invented by Shakespeare for the daughter of a Jewish merchant, Shylock, in his play 'The Merchant of Venice'. It would have been spelled Jescha in his time. It wasn't commonly used as a given name until the middle of the 20th century.

My last name is a common Hispanic surname bestowed on a person who lived on a riverbank. The Rivera surname can be traced back to Gonzalo Lopez de Rivera, Lord of the Castle of Rivera in Galicia in the 1200's. Some sources, however, claim that the Riveras are directed descendants of Sancho Belloso, natural-born son of the King of Leon, Ramiro III. Others, that the name dates back to ancient Roman times.