Meaning not yet researched.
Yesenia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 103 in 2025. Its best rank was #137 in 1987.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #137 in 1987; #1,901 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yesenia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,901 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1987, at #137.
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Yesenia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 103 girls in 2025. Peak: #137 in 1987 · most girls in one year: 2,003 (1987).
In 2025, 103 US girls were named Yesenia, making it the 1,901st most common girls’ name of the year, down 349 places from #1,552 in 2024. That is 35 fewer than the 138 girls named Yesenia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #137, reached in 1987. That year also had the most girls given the name: 2,003. For comparison, it was #1,316 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yesenia in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 17 babies. In all, 39,781 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 0.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 15,295 babies named Yesenia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,349 US girls were named Yesenia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 183. In 2025 that was about 1 in 15,605 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yesenia ranked highest in Oregon in 2025, at #726 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Yessenia (7,466 babies since 1880) and Yecenia (1,235 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Yezenia, Yesennia and Yesinia 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: Yezenia (497), Yesennia (77), Yesinia (48), Yesenya (22), Yescenia (15), Yesania (6), Yesenio (6), Yessenya (5), Yisenia (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 Yesenia in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 44 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oregon | 5 | #726 | — |
| California | 27 | #1,025 | #775 |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,049 | — |
| Arizona | 5 | #1,208 | #952 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,307 | #1,060 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,710 | #1,064 |
| Florida | 7 | #1,878 | #1,634 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 103 | #1,901 | — | — |
| 2024 | 138 | #1,552 | — | — |
| 2023 | 133 | #1,585 | — | — |
| 2022 | 116 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 2021 | 114 | #1,790 | — | — |
| 2020 | 145 | #1,484 | — | — |
| 2019 | 133 | #1,606 | — | — |
| 2018 | 134 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 2017 | 150 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 2016 | 183 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 2015 | 181 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 2014 | 200 | #1,227 | — | — |
| 2013 | 239 | #1,041 | — | — |
| 2012 | 292 | #900 | — | — |
| 2011 | 297 | #883 | — | — |
| 2010 | 407 | #704 | — | — |
| 2009 | 502 | #602 | — | — |
| 2008 | 580 | #529 | — | — |
| 2007 | 680 | #474 | — | — |
| 2006 | 759 | #421 | — | — |
| 2005 | 786 | #400 | — | — |
| 2004 | 950 | #339 | 6 | #11,316 |
| 2003 | 1,026 | #302 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,161 | #272 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,173 | #268 | — | — |
| 2000 | 1,294 | #248 | — | — |
| 1999 | 1,306 | #242 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,185 | #261 | 5 | #11,287 |
| 1997 | 1,306 | #229 | 6 | #9,239 |
| 1996 | 1,503 | #194 | — | — |
| 1995 | 1,495 | #200 | 19 | #3,557 |
| 1994 | 1,608 | #186 | 16 | #4,089 |
| 1993 | 1,527 | #191 | 17 | #3,815 |
| 1992 | 1,744 | #175 | 16 | #3,914 |
| 1991 | 1,577 | #189 | 14 | #4,223 |
| 1990 | 1,923 | #156 | 28 | #2,486 |
| 1989 | 1,303 | #204 | 22 | #2,899 |
| 1988 | 1,208 | #215 | 26 | #2,364 |
| 1987 | 2,003 | #137 | 41 | #1,683 |
| 1986 | 848 | #293 | 13 | #3,650 |
| 1985 | 522 | #423 | 19 | #2,707 |
| 1984 | 415 | #487 | 10 | #4,212 |
| 1983 | 454 | #455 | 8 | #4,899 |
| 1982 | 448 | #470 | 14 | #3,279 |
| 1981 | 513 | #423 | 8 | #4,954 |
| 1980 | 509 | #426 | — | — |
| 1979 | 540 | #400 | 6 | #6,047 |
| 1978 | 423 | #466 | 6 | #5,761 |
| 1977 | 446 | #448 | — | — |
| 1976 | 461 | #435 | 8 | #4,409 |
| 1975 | 495 | #408 | — | — |
| 1974 | 408 | #452 | 6 | #5,215 |
| 1973 | 343 | #503 | — | — |
| 1972 | 471 | #414 | — | — |
| 1971 | 527 | #409 | — | — |
| 1970 | 29 | #2,575 | — | — |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,452 | — | — |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,997 | — | — |
| 1967 | 12 | #4,049 | — | — |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,147 | — | — |
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).