Meaning not yet researched.
Jessenia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 21 in 2025. Its best rank was #884 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #884 in 1993; #5,809 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jessenia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,809 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #884.
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Jessenia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 21 girls in 2025. Peak: #884 in 1993 · most girls in one year: 219 (1993).
In 2025, 21 US girls were named Jessenia, making it the 5,809th most common girls’ name of the year, up 63 places from #5,872 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 21 girls named Jessenia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #884, reached in 1993. That year also had the most girls given the name: 219. For comparison, it was #4,183 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jessenia in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 12 babies. In all, 5,428 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,876 babies named Jessenia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 343 US girls were named Jessenia; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 55. In 2025 that was about 1 in 76,537 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jesenia (4,770 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jessenya, Jecenia and Jesenya 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: Jessenya (140), Jecenia (119), Jesenya (91), Jessinia (28), Jezenia (6), Jescenia (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 Jessenia 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 | 21 | #5,809 | — | — |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,872 | — | — |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,148 | — | — |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,524 | — | — |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,312 | — | — |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,868 | — | — |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,707 | — | — |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,978 | — | — |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,733 | — | — |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,303 | — | — |
| 2015 | 35 | #4,183 | — | — |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,022 | — | — |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,614 | — | — |
| 2012 | 89 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,284 | — | — |
| 2010 | 101 | #1,984 | — | — |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,799 | — | — |
| 2008 | 101 | #2,046 | — | — |
| 2007 | 136 | #1,640 | — | — |
| 2006 | 136 | #1,584 | — | — |
| 2005 | 144 | #1,469 | — | — |
| 2004 | 137 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 2003 | 136 | #1,448 | — | — |
| 2002 | 142 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 2001 | 170 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 2000 | 154 | #1,268 | — | — |
| 1999 | 158 | #1,207 | — | — |
| 1998 | 161 | #1,169 | — | — |
| 1997 | 186 | #1,033 | — | — |
| 1996 | 178 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1995 | 159 | #1,116 | — | — |
| 1994 | 188 | #989 | — | — |
| 1993 | 219 | #884 | — | — |
| 1992 | 199 | #967 | — | — |
| 1991 | 215 | #905 | — | — |
| 1990 | 213 | #901 | — | — |
| 1989 | 162 | #1,054 | — | — |
| 1988 | 190 | #908 | — | — |
| 1987 | 167 | #959 | — | — |
| 1986 | 103 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1985 | 108 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,711 | — | — |
| 1983 | 70 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 1982 | 79 | #1,516 | — | — |
| 1981 | 69 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,616 | — | — |
| 1979 | 76 | #1,533 | — | — |
| 1978 | 59 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1977 | 45 | #2,102 | — | — |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,685 | — | — |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,251 | — | — |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,150 | — | — |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,278 | — | — |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,452 | — | — |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,657 | — | — |
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).