Yessenia
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- yeh-SEN-yuh
- Origin
- Modern
- US rank, 2025
- #6,324 for girls
Yessenia is a girls' name of Modern origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,324th for girls in the US (18 babies).
What does Yessenia mean?
Modern: variant of Yesenia
A variant spelling of Yesenia, a name spread by a Mexican comic-book and telenovela heroine.
Is Yessenia a girl's or a boy's name?
Yessenia is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 18 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Yessenia in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #6,324among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 18about 1 in 89,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Fallingdown 26% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 18 girls in the US were named Yessenia, making it the 6,324th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,077th. Its busiest year was 1990, with 330 girls. It first appears in the records in 1971.
2025 had the fewest girls named Yessenia since it first appeared, in 1971.
Half of all the girls named Yessenia in the US since 1880 were born between 1990 and 2004, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 121 girls in the US were given Yessenia or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,484, up from #6,324 for this spelling alone.
- Yesenia 103
- Yessenia 18
Yessenia in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,324 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,386 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,361 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,376 |
| 2021 | 37 | #3,933 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,077 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,717 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,917 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,305 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,060 |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,846 |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,515 |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,508 |
| 2012 | 83 | #2,265 |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,927 |
| 2010 | 133 | #1,621 |
| 2009 | 136 | #1,639 |
| 2008 | 157 | #1,486 |
| 2007 | 193 | #1,274 |
| 2006 | 192 | #1,252 |
| 2005 | 225 | #1,061 |
| 2004 | 239 | #991 |
| 2003 | 231 | #999 |
| 2002 | 243 | #919 |
| 2001 | 253 | #897 |
| 2000 | 217 | #974 |
| 1999 | 264 | #820 |
| 1998 | 274 | #784 |
| 1997 | 283 | #752 |
| 1996 | 315 | #689 |
| 1995 | 280 | #729 |
| 1994 | 277 | #747 |
| 1993 | 316 | #687 |
| 1992 | 300 | #712 |
| 1991 | 278 | #747 |
| 1990 | 330 | #662 |
| 1989 | 235 | #808 |
| 1988 | 250 | #751 |
| 1987 | 249 | #725 |
| 1986 | 89 | #1,439 |
| 1985 | 85 | #1,457 |
| 1984 | 56 | #1,886 |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,700 |
| 1982 | 75 | #1,566 |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,674 |
| 1980 | 50 | #2,069 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,020 |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,050 |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,307 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,791 |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,196 |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,801 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,127 |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,135 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,062 |
Names like Yessenia
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Talia Alia Sophia Nadia Malia Mia Samantha Sierra Aria Kayla Alyssa Bianca
Other spellings of Yessenia
Names related to Yessenia
More Modern names
Jayden Ailany Myla Kayden Nevaeh Jax Indie Miley Raelynn Kaiden Kehlani Alayna Caden Zayden Wrenley Mya
Sources
Figures from 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, “Yessenia: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yessenia, updated 20 October 2026.