Yessica
#5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births
- Peak · girls
- 1995 · 175 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,956since 1973
Yessica over time
Rank among girls' names. Yessica has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,917 | 20 |
| 2024 | #5,962 | 20 |
| 2023 | #4,746 | 28 |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 |
| 2020 | #4,263 | 32 |
| 2019 | #4,072 | 35 |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 |
| 2017 | #5,517 | 23 |
| 2016 | #4,850 | 28 |
| 2015 | #4,295 | 33 |
| 2014 | #3,848 | 39 |
| 2013 | #3,166 | 51 |
| 2012 | #3,314 | 49 |
| 2011 | #2,664 | 66 |
| 2010 | #3,044 | 55 |
| 2009 | #2,076 | 98 |
| 2008 | #1,903 | 111 |
| 2007 | #1,848 | 114 |
| 2006 | #1,608 | 133 |
| 2005 | #1,525 | 135 |
| 2004 | #1,404 | 148 |
| 2003 | #1,313 | 157 |
| 2002 | #1,363 | 142 |
| 2001 | #1,257 | 156 |
| 2000 | #1,291 | 149 |
| 1999 | #1,315 | 137 |
| 1998 | #1,228 | 148 |
| 1997 | #1,334 | 129 |
| 1996 | #1,238 | 141 |
| 1995 | #1,037 | 175 |
| 1994 | #1,105 | 162 |
| 1993 | #1,312 | 128 |
| 1992 | #1,170 | 150 |
| 1991 | #1,173 | 149 |
| 1990 | #1,334 | 120 |
| 1989 | #1,717 | 79 |
| 1988 | #1,911 | 64 |
| 1987 | #1,678 | 72 |
| 1986 | #1,952 | 56 |
| 1985 | #2,545 | 38 |
| 1984 | #2,050 | 49 |
| 1983 | #2,310 | 41 |
| 1982 | #2,288 | 43 |
| 1981 | #2,847 | 31 |
| 1980 | #2,749 | 33 |
| 1979 | #2,525 | 36 |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 |
| 1977 | #5,532 | 11 |
| 1976 | #3,540 | 19 |
| 1975 | #6,484 | 8 |
| 1974 | #3,558 | 18 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Yessica! It came in at #6,666, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1973, when fewer than 8 girls a year got the name.
Where Yessica is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Nevada#318 · 1 in 1,275
- Arizona#738 · 1 in 4,058
- Washington#889 · 1 in 5,683
- North Carolina#900 · 1 in 6,206
- California#1,005 · 1 in 7,424
Best ever in a state: #284 in Nevada, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Nevada | #318 | 8 | 1 in 1,275 |
| Arizona | #738 | 8 | 1 in 4,058 |
| Washington | #889 | 5 | 1 in 5,683 |
| North Carolina | #900 | 7 | 1 in 6,206 |
| California | #1,005 | 30 | 1 in 7,424 |
| Georgia | #1,009 | 7 | 1 in 6,915 |
| Texas | #1,025 | 22 | 1 in 7,088 |
| New York | #1,636 | 7 | 1 in 13,840 |
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See more about Yessica
- 45 spots since 2024 (#5,962 → #5,917)
- 1,654 spots since 2020 (#4,263 → #5,917)
- 1,622 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #5,917)
- Debuted 1973
- Peaked 1995 at #1,037 (175 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 10,049 girls born in 1995 were named Yessica (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 80,363 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 36.4% of all girls named Yessica (1,439) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 118 | #2,525 (1979) | #4,583 |
| 1980s | 506 | #1,678 (1987) | #2,205 |
| 1990s | 1,439 | #1,037 (1995) | #1,225 |
| 2000s | 1,343 | #1,257 (2001) | #1,559 |
| 2010s | 405 | #2,664 (2011) | #3,978 |
| 2020s | 145 | #4,263 (2020) | #5,336 |
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.
Yessica in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 12,654 of them was named Yessica, which outranked 92.5% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,351Rosalie143
- #1,351Sanjana143
- #1,351Simran143
- #1,363Yessica142
- #1,363Amirah142
- #1,363Cortney142
- #1,363Jessenia142
- #1,370Alannah141
- #1,370Anastacia141
- #1,370Kerry141
Tied with 6 names at #1,363; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.