Yessenia
#6,325 for girls in 2025, 18 births · Last seen for boys in 1990 at #6,415
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1990 · 330 births
- Debut · girls
- 22 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,454since 1971
Yessenia over time
Rank among girls' names. Yessenia has never cracked the top 600 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 | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,325 | 18 | — | |
| 2024 | #4,387 | 32 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,363 | 32 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,378 | 32 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,935 | 37 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,078 | 34 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,718 | 40 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,918 | 37 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,305 | 48 | — | |
| 2016 | #3,060 | 54 | — | |
| 2015 | #2,846 | 61 | — | |
| 2014 | #2,517 | 71 | — | |
| 2013 | #2,508 | 71 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,265 | 83 | — | |
| 2011 | #1,927 | 103 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,621 | 133 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,639 | 136 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,486 | 157 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,274 | 193 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,252 | 192 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,061 | 225 | — | |
| 2004 | #991 | 239 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,000 | 231 | — | |
| 2002 | #919 | 243 | — | |
| 2001 | #897 | 253 | — | |
| 2000 | #975 | 217 | — | |
| 1999 | #821 | 264 | — | |
| 1998 | #784 | 274 | — | |
| 1997 | #752 | 283 | — | |
| 1996 | #689 | 315 | — | |
| 1995 | #730 | 280 | — | |
| 1994 | #748 | 277 | — | |
| 1993 | #687 | 316 | — | |
| 1992 | #712 | 300 | — | |
| 1991 | #747 | 278 | — | |
| 1990 | #663 | 330 | #6,415 | 7 |
| 1989 | #810 | 235 | — | |
| 1988 | #751 | 250 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #725 | 249 | — | |
| 1986 | #1,439 | 89 | — | |
| 1985 | #1,458 | 85 | — | |
| 1984 | #1,886 | 56 | — | |
| 1983 | #1,700 | 64 | — | |
| 1982 | #1,566 | 75 | — | |
| 1981 | #1,674 | 68 | — | |
| 1980 | #2,069 | 50 | — | |
| 1979 | #2,020 | 50 | — | |
| 1978 | #2,050 | 46 | — | |
| 1977 | #2,307 | 39 | — | |
| 1976 | #2,792 | 27 | — | |
| 1975 | #2,196 | 38 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,801 | 49 | — | |
| 1973 | #2,127 | 37 | — | |
| 1972 | #2,135 | 36 | — | |
| 1971 | #3,062 | 22 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Yessenia! It came in at #3,062, and was given to 22 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2025, when fewer than 19 girls a year got the name.
Where Yessenia is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#764 · 1 in 6,555
- Illinois#894 · 1 in 8,863
- Texas#1,202 · 1 in 12,924
- California#1,854 · 1 in 25,555
Best ever in a state: #229 in District of Columbia, 2006.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #764 | 15 | 1 in 6,555 |
| Illinois | #894 | 8 | 1 in 8,863 |
| Texas | #1,202 | 8 | 1 in 12,924 |
| California | #1,854 | 6 | 1 in 25,555 |
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See more about Yessenia
- 1,938 spots since 2024 (#4,387 → #6,325)
- 2,247 spots since 2020 (#4,078 → #6,325)
- 3,479 spots since 2015 (#2,846 → #6,325)
- Biggest jump: 714 spots in 1987 (#1,439 → #725)
- Biggest drop: 154 spots in 2000 (#821 → #975)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1990 at #663 (330 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 18 yrs · run 1987–2004
- Highest: 1 in 5,565 girls born in 1996 were named Yessenia (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 89,293 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #663 in 1990, was only 1 in 5,753 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 39.1% of all girls named Yessenia (2,917) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 344 | #1,801 (1974) | #2,277 |
| 1980s | 1,221 | #725 (1987) | #1,408 |
| 1990s | 2,917 | #663 (1990) | #733 |
| 2000s | 2,086 | #897 (2001) | #1,149 |
| 2010s | 701 | #1,621 (2010) | #2,769 |
| 2020s | 185 | #3,935 (2021) | #4,578 |
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.
Yessenia in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
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1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 33,301 of them was named Yessenia, which outranked 82.1% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,012Toshia47
- #2,012Yasmeen47
- #2,012Zabrina47
- #2,050Yessenia46
- #2,050Aaliyah46
- #2,050Aneesah46
- #2,050Arelis46
- #2,092Aiesha45
- #2,092Aziza45
- #2,092China45
Tied with 41 names at #2,050; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.