Meaning not yet researched.
Jesenia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #898 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #898 in 1987; #7,284 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jesenia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,284 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #898.
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Jesenia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #898 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 195 (1990).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Jesenia, making it the 7,284th most common girls’ name of the year, up 885 places from #8,169 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 13 girls named Jesenia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #898, reached in 1987. The most girls given the name in a single year was 195, in 1990. For comparison, it was #4,343 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jesenia in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 43 babies. In all, 4,770 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,601 babies named Jesenia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 203 US girls were named Jesenia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jessenia (5,428 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jezeniah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jezeniah (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jesenia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,284 | — | — |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,169 | — | — |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,527 | — | — |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,117 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,824 | — | — |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,816 | — | — |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,518 | — | — |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,931 | — | — |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,112 | — | — |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,578 | — | — |
| 2015 | 33 | #4,343 | — | — |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,747 | — | — |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,115 | — | — |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,746 | — | — |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,195 | — | — |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,769 | — | — |
| 2009 | 71 | #2,600 | — | — |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,871 | — | — |
| 2007 | 102 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 2006 | 83 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,784 | — | — |
| 2004 | 119 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,568 | — | — |
| 2002 | 130 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 2001 | 116 | #1,596 | — | — |
| 2000 | 119 | #1,531 | — | — |
| 1999 | 136 | #1,324 | — | — |
| 1998 | 123 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1997 | 134 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1996 | 161 | #1,125 | — | — |
| 1995 | 160 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1994 | 153 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1993 | 180 | #1,026 | — | — |
| 1992 | 184 | #1,023 | — | — |
| 1991 | 175 | #1,046 | — | — |
| 1990 | 195 | #965 | — | — |
| 1989 | 167 | #1,026 | 6 | #7,413 |
| 1988 | 148 | #1,070 | — | — |
| 1987 | 187 | #898 | — | — |
| 1986 | 101 | #1,317 | — | — |
| 1985 | 87 | #1,441 | — | — |
| 1984 | 87 | #1,366 | — | — |
| 1983 | 85 | #1,394 | — | — |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,591 | — | — |
| 1981 | 87 | #1,410 | — | — |
| 1980 | 86 | #1,425 | — | — |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1978 | 73 | #1,527 | — | — |
| 1977 | 66 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 1975 | 53 | #1,760 | — | — |
| 1974 | 57 | #1,637 | — | — |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,866 | — | — |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,985 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).