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Yesenia

Gender
Girl
Say it
yeh-SEN-yuh
Origin
Modern
UK rank, 2025
#4,935 for girls
US rank, 2025
#1,896 for girls

Yesenia is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 4,935th for girls in the UK (4 babies) and 1,896th for girls in the US (103 babies).

What does Yesenia mean?

Modern: popularised by the Mexican comic-book and telenovela heroine Yesenia

Spread through Yesenia, a Mexican comic-book story by Yolanda Vargas Dulche adapted as a telenovela and film around 1970.

Is Yesenia a girl's or a boy's name?

Yesenia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 4 girls in the UK and 103 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Yesenia in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#4,935among girls
Babies in 2025
4about 1 in 70,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 4 girls in the UK were named Yesenia, making it the 4,935th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,326th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 4 girls.

2025 had more girls named Yesenia than any year since 2017.

Among girls in 2025, it was 4,866th in England and Wales.

2009Busiest: 4 in 20172025
Yesenia in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20254#4,935
20243#5,966
20230–
20220–
20210–
20201#7,326
20190–
20180–
20174#4,967
20160–
20150–
20140–
20130–
20120–
20110–
20100–
20091#7,377

How popular is Yesenia in the US?

Rank in 2025
#1,896among girls
Babies in 2025
103about 1 in 16,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steadydown 9% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 103 girls in the US were named Yesenia, making it the 1,896th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,474th. Its busiest year was 1987, with 2,003 girls. It first appears in the records in 1966.

2025 had fewer girls named Yesenia than any year since 1970.

Half of all the girls named Yesenia in the US since 1880 were born between 1987 and 2001, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 121 girls in the US were given Yesenia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,484, up from #1,896 for this spelling alone.

1966Busiest: 2,003 in 19872025
Yesenia in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
2025103#1,896
2024138#1,546
2023133#1,581
2022116#1,775
2021114#1,780
2020145#1,474
2019133#1,598
2018134#1,595
2017150#1,482
2016183#1,307
2015181#1,311
2014200#1,221
2013239#1,039
2012292#899
2011297#882
2010407#700
2009502#601
2008580#528
2007680#472
2006759#420
2005786#400
2004950#338
20031,026#302
20021,161#271
20011,173#268
20001,294#248
19991,306#242
19981,185#260
19971,306#229
19961,503#193
19951,495#200
19941,608#186
19931,527#191
19921,744#175
19911,577#189
19901,923#156
19891,303#204
19881,208#215
19872,003#136
1986848#293
1985522#421
1984415#487
1983454#453
1982448#470
1981513#423
1980509#426
1979540#400
1978423#465
1977446#448
1976461#435
1975495#407
1974408#451
1973343#503
1972471#414
1971527#407
197029#2,522
19699#5,056
196813#3,788
196712#3,844
196617#3,039

Names like Yesenia

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Aria Sophia Maria Marlia Lucia Arlia Julia Eva-Maria Victoria Marcia Mia Olivia

Other spellings of Yesenia

Yessenia

Names related to Yesenia

Yasenia Ysenia Yezenia

More Modern names

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Every Modern name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Yesenia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yesenia, updated 20 October 2026.