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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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.
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 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 7,123 of them was named Yessenia, which outranked 94.6% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 382,857 of them was named Yessenia, which outranked 14.4% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,225 names at #7,270; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.