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Jessenia

#5,808 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Yesenia

Jessenia has been given to 5,428 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #5,808 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 219 recorded.

Babies named Jessenia, 2025

1 in 158,000

Jessenia over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jessenia: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Yesenia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jessenia means

Jessenia is a variant of Yesenia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yesenia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,428 girls were recorded with the name Jessenia between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 219 in 1993; its best national rank was #883 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,867 in 2020 to #5,808 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,182 in 2015 to #5,808 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jessenia?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 76,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,808
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jessenia sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jessenia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jessenias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jessenia was born before 1996 — so the typical Jessenia is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
34.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
36.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
5,428
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (1,876).

Is Jessenia rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+61
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,941
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,626
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.60×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
9.6%
Peak was 1993 (219)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#883
1993

Spellings of Jessenia

Jessenia is not the most common spelling — Yesenia is, with 66.6% against Jessenia's 9.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jessenia is used

Across 1910–2025, Jessenia was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 23,394 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 11,111
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 11,111
  3. 3New York1 in 14,286
  4. 4California1 in 16,667
  5. 5Connecticut1 in 20,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 20,000
  7. 7Illinois1 in 33,333
  8. 8Massachusetts1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jessenia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jessenia around the world

Where Jessenia ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2004–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • Canada
    1994–1997
    #2,443
    in 1997
  • South Australia
    2003–2003
    #739
    in 2003

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jessenia by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,808
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,941
Best rank ever
#883
1993
Peak year
1993
219 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,428
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Jessenia

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

JeseniaJessalynJessikaJesslynYesseniaJesicaStefaniaLaviniaJesslynnEstefaniaJesselynMelaniaJessaJessiJessalynnMilaniaStephaniaJesusitaGardeniaJessamineJeslynJessiniaApoloniaHerminia

Names with a curve like Jessenia

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jessenia, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jessenia

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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