Meaning not yet researched.
Yessenia: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 18 in 2025. Its best rank was #663 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #663 in 1990; #6,536 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Yessenia in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,536 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #663.
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Yessenia: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 18 girls in 2025. Peak: #663 in 1990 · most girls in one year: 330 (1990).
In 2025, 18 US girls were named Yessenia, making it the 6,536th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,066 places from #4,470 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 32 girls named Yessenia in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #663, reached in 1990. That year also had the most girls given the name: 330. For comparison, it was #2,888 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yessenia in 55 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1971 with 22 babies. In all, 7,466 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 2,924 babies named Yessenia.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 364 US girls were named Yessenia; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 54. In 2025 that was about 1 in 89,293 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Yesenia (39,781 babies since 1880) and Yecenia (1,235 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Yessenia 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 | 18 | #6,536 | — | — |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,470 | — | — |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,451 | — | — |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,464 | — | — |
| 2021 | 37 | #4,009 | — | — |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,164 | — | — |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,786 | — | — |
| 2018 | 37 | #4,000 | — | — |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,343 | — | — |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,098 | — | — |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,888 | — | — |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,534 | — | — |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,532 | — | — |
| 2012 | 83 | #2,285 | — | — |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,942 | — | — |
| 2010 | 133 | #1,628 | — | — |
| 2009 | 136 | #1,649 | — | — |
| 2008 | 157 | #1,494 | — | — |
| 2007 | 193 | #1,276 | — | — |
| 2006 | 192 | #1,256 | — | — |
| 2005 | 225 | #1,065 | — | — |
| 2004 | 239 | #992 | — | — |
| 2003 | 231 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 2002 | 243 | #922 | — | — |
| 2001 | 253 | #899 | — | — |
| 2000 | 217 | #980 | — | — |
| 1999 | 264 | #823 | — | — |
| 1998 | 274 | #785 | — | — |
| 1997 | 283 | #753 | — | — |
| 1996 | 315 | #691 | — | — |
| 1995 | 280 | #733 | — | — |
| 1994 | 277 | #750 | — | — |
| 1993 | 316 | #687 | — | — |
| 1992 | 300 | #713 | — | — |
| 1991 | 278 | #748 | — | — |
| 1990 | 330 | #663 | 7 | #7,171 |
| 1989 | 235 | #812 | — | — |
| 1988 | 250 | #754 | 5 | #8,474 |
| 1987 | 249 | #728 | — | — |
| 1986 | 89 | #1,446 | — | — |
| 1985 | 85 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 1984 | 56 | #1,903 | — | — |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,714 | — | — |
| 1982 | 75 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,699 | — | — |
| 1980 | 50 | #2,095 | — | — |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,048 | — | — |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,090 | — | — |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,339 | — | — |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,864 | — | — |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,230 | — | — |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,819 | — | — |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,172 | — | — |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,163 | — | — |
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).