I was born in Nov. 1949, the song was by that time on all the radio stations. We lived in Texas at my birth, and my sister wanted to name me Cathy after the little girl. My mother named me Kathleen, and called me Kathy. The year that the little girl, Jessica, fell into the well my daughter gave birth to a girl and named her Jessica. All the grandkids knows the stories behind the names, they were rasied on it as were my kids.