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The name "Jennica" is a blend of "Jennifer" and "Jessica" which was first used in the 20th century. "Jennika" is just an alternate spelling. Compare other names of nebulous origin like "Pamela," "Melinda," "Kendra" and the Mirage TMNT character Lucindra whose mother couldn't decide between "Lucille" and "Cassandra." If you're curious about the two names that make up "Jennika:"
 * "Jennifer" is a name never attested before the early 20th century, but is traditionally a form of "," of Celtic origin meaning "fair spirit," and the name of a character . The "J" in "Jennifer" may be influenced by the name "Juniper," of  origin, as is much more blatantly the case in various other loaned forms of "Guinevere" on the European mainland such as Italian "."
 * "Jessica" is also of slightly nebulous origin but has a longer history, first attested in this form in the character Jessica from the play .  The name is believed to be a form of the  name יִסְכָּה "Yiskā," meaning "foresight," and the name of a niece of .  In the  of Shakespeare's time, this name was written "Iesca" or "Jesca," but in today's more common  it is written "."

One thing to realize about the IDW turtles is that, unlike in most other versions, did not name them&mdash; did, when they were still unmutated laboratory animals at StockGen, and it was because she studying those artists when she was still in college. The names just stuck with them as their primary names in their new reincarnated lives. Splinter remembers that he was in his past life, and the names of the Hamato Sons in their past lives have still never been revealed (whether the turtles remember these names or not), so it is what it is. claims his middle name is "Tezuka," but it seems highly improbable this was a name in his past life, and more likely it's because Mikey loved manga and claimed the middle name (in addition to a string of others) out of his love for, claiming to that his full name was "Michelangelo Tezuka Action Hamato," before adding "Genius" as yet another middle name. April did not name Jennika, and the series has not otherwise stuck to any kind of artist theme naming of characters. For instance, 's pet baby protoceratops is named "," and he also named a baby velociraptor "Anchovy" who later mutated and became the third member of and 's gang. So there's no special reason for Jenny to be named after any artist, Renaissance or otherwise.