Yesenia Girl
How popular is Yesenia?
#1,896 girl name in 2025
103 baby girls were named Yesenia in the US in 2025, making it the 1896th most popular girl name.
Yesenia popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,896 for girls (▼ 350 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 103 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-43% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #1,311 in 2015, #1,474 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1987 (2,003 girls) |
| Highest rank | #136 in 1987 |
| First recorded | 1966 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Yesenia counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Yesenia family of names ranked #1,380 for girls in 2025 (#1,138 the year before), with 121 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Yesenia | 103 | 85% |
| Yessenia | 18 | 15% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Yesenia is most popular
Babies named Yesenia per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- California: 0.2 per 1,000 (128 girls)
- Colorado: 0.1 per 1,000 (16 girls)
- Arizona: 0.1 per 1,000 (18 girls)
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (96 girls)
- Florida: 0.1 per 1,000 (36 girls)
Yesenia by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 51 | #3,039 |
| 1970s | 4,143 | #400 |
| 1980s | 8,223 | #136 |
| 1990s | 15,174 | #156 |
| 2000s | 8,911 | #248 |
| 2010s | 2,216 | #700 |
| 2020s | 749 | #1,474 |
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Questions
- Is Yesenia a boy or girl name?
- Yesenia is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Yesenia were girls.
- How popular is the name Yesenia?
- 103 baby girls were named Yesenia in the US in 2025, making it the 1896th most popular girl name.
- When was Yesenia most popular?
- Yesenia peaked in 1987, when 2,003 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #136 in 1987.
- How many people are named Yesenia?
- 39,781 babies have been named Yesenia in the US since 1880. We estimate about 38,981 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 32.
- Where is Yesenia most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Yesenia was most common in California, at 0.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.