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Yessenia

#6,535 in 2025Girls' name

Variant of Yesenia

Yessenia has been given to 7,466 babies in the U.S. since 1971. In 2025 it ranked #6,535 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 330 recorded.

Babies named Yessenia, 2025

1 in 184,000

Yessenia over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yessenia: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Yesenia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yessenia means

Yessenia is a variant of Yesenia.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Yesenia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 7,454 girls were recorded with the name Yessenia between 1971 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 330 in 1990; its best national rank was #662 in 1990.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,162 in 2020 to #6,535 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #2,888 in 2015 to #6,535 in 2025.

In the United States, 12 boys were recorded with the name Yessenia between 1988 and 1990. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1990; its best national rank was #7,164 in 1990.

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 Yessenia?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 184,000
18 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 89,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,535
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
127,662 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yessenia 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 127,662 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yessenia. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yessenias were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yessenia was born before 1997 — so the typical Yessenia is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
39.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
37.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
7,454
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 39.1% of all recorded uses (2,917).

Is Yessenia 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
−2,067
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−2,373
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−3,647
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.30×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.5%
Peak was 1990 (330)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#662
1990

Spellings of Yessenia

Yessenia is not the most common spelling — Yesenia is, with 67.6% against Yessenia's 12.8%.

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 Yessenia is used

Across 1910–2025, Yessenia was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 6,667 girls, against 1 in 18,617 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

015 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 6,667
  2. 2Arizona1 in 7,692
  3. 3Nevada1 in 9,091
  4. 4Florida1 in 11,111
  5. 5Texas1 in 11,111
  6. 6Illinois1 in 20,000
  7. 7New York1 in 20,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 25,000

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. Yessenia has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yessenia around the world

Where Yessenia 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.

  • Canada
    2004–2004
    #2,752
    in 2004

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Yessenia

People whose public names include Yessenia, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Yessenia by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,535
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 2,373
Best rank ever
#662
1990
Peak year
1990
330 that year
First recorded
1971
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
7,454
Count in 2025
18

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,164
1990
Peak year
1990
7 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
1990
All-time count
12
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yessenia

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

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Names with a curve like Yessenia

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

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Sibling names for Yessenia

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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