Yesenia
#1,896 for girls in 2025, 103 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #9,948
Given to girls 99.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1987 · 2,003 births
- Debut · girls
- 17 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 39,467since 1966
Yesenia over time
Rank among girls' names. Yesenia has never cracked the top 100 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,896 | 103 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,546 | 138 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,581 | 133 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,775 | 116 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,780 | 114 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,474 | 145 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,598 | 133 | — | |
| 2018 | #1,595 | 134 | — | |
| 2017 | #1,482 | 150 | — | |
| 2016 | #1,307 | 183 | — | |
| 2015 | #1,311 | 181 | — | |
| 2014 | #1,221 | 200 | — | |
| 2013 | #1,039 | 239 | — | |
| 2012 | #899 | 292 | — | |
| 2011 | #882 | 297 | — | |
| 2010 | #700 | 407 | — | |
| 2009 | #601 | 502 | — | |
| 2008 | #528 | 580 | — | |
| 2007 | #472 | 680 | — | |
| 2006 | #420 | 759 | — | |
| 2005 | #400 | 786 | — | |
| 2004 | #338 | 950 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #302 | 1,026 | — | |
| 2002 | #271 | 1,161 | — | |
| 2001 | #268 | 1,173 | — | |
| 2000 | #248 | 1,294 | — | |
| 1999 | #242 | 1,306 | — | |
| 1998 | #260 | 1,185 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #229 | 1,306 | #8,110 | 6 |
| 1996 | #193 | 1,503 | — | |
| 1995 | #200 | 1,495 | #3,432 | 19 |
| 1994 | #186 | 1,608 | #3,911 | 16 |
| 1993 | #191 | 1,527 | #3,661 | 17 |
| 1992 | #175 | 1,744 | #3,748 | 16 |
| 1991 | #189 | 1,577 | #4,005 | 14 |
| 1990 | #156 | 1,923 | #2,432 | 28 |
| 1989 | #204 | 1,303 | #2,784 | 22 |
| 1988 | #215 | 1,208 | #2,305 | 26 |
| 1987 | #136 | 2,003 | #1,655 | 41 |
| 1986 | #293 | 848 | #3,440 | 13 |
| 1985 | #421 | 522 | #2,598 | 19 |
| 1984 | #487 | 415 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #453 | 454 | #4,499 | 8 |
| 1982 | #470 | 448 | #3,108 | 14 |
| 1981 | #423 | 513 | #4,509 | 8 |
| 1980 | #426 | 509 | — | |
| 1979 | #400 | 540 | #5,355 | 6 |
| 1978 | #465 | 423 | #5,059 | 6 |
| 1977 | #448 | 446 | — | |
| 1976 | #435 | 461 | #4,012 | 8 |
| 1975 | #407 | 495 | — | |
| 1974 | #451 | 408 | #4,634 | 6 |
| 1973 | #503 | 343 | — | |
| 1972 | #414 | 471 | — | |
| 1971 | #407 | 527 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,522 | 29 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,057 | 9 | — | |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 | — | |
| 1967 | #3,845 | 12 | — | |
| 1966 | #3,040 | 17 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Yesenia! It came in at #3,040, and was given to 17 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1967–1969, when fewer than 14 girls a year got the name.
See more about Yesenia
- 350 spots since 2024 (#1,546 → #1,896)
- 422 spots since 2020 (#1,474 → #1,896)
- 585 spots since 2015 (#1,311 → #1,896)
- Biggest jump: 2,115 spots in 1971 (#2,522 → #407)
- Biggest drop: 182 spots in 2011 (#700 → #882)
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1987 at #136 (2,003 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 17 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 42 yrs · run 1971–2012
- Highest: 1 in 868 girls born in 1987 were named Yesenia (0.12%)
- Latest: 1 in 15,605 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 38.4% of all girls named Yesenia (15,174) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 51 | #3,040 (1966) | #3,933 |
| 1970s | 4,143 | #400 (1979) | #645 |
| 1980s | 8,223 | #136 (1987) | #353 |
| 1990s | 15,174 | #156 (1990) | #202 |
| 2000s | 8,911 | #248 (2000) | #385 |
| 2010s | 2,216 | #700 (2010) | #1,203 |
| 2020s | 749 | #1,474 (2020) | #1,675 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yesenia in 1991
Top girls' names in 1991
Top boys' names in 1991
More about 1991
girls
1,875,007 girls got a published name in 1991; 1 in 1,189 of them was named Yesenia, which outranked 98.8% of the 15,466 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,020,328 boys got a published name in 1991; 1 in 144,309 of them was named Yesenia, which outranked 58.5% of the 9,648 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,813Zachrey15
- #3,813Zakariah15
- #3,813Ziad15
- #4,005Yesenia14
- #4,005Abdulaziz14
- #4,005Abrahim14
- #4,005Adem14
- #4,231Aakash13
- #4,231Abdel13
- #4,231Abigail13
Tied with 225 names at #4,005; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.