Yesenia

Where Yesenia comes from

Yesenia hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1966
    First appearance
    #3,040 among girls, 17 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1987
    Peak, #136
    2,003 babies named Yesenia — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1989
    Yesenia Olaya born
    Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia
  4. 2004
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #338.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Yesenia Olaya · Minister of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia, born 1989

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.