Jesenia
Jesenia was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,282 among girls’ names; 4,770 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,660 Americans named Jesenia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 32 years old and half are between 23 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jesenia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jesenia?
#7,282 among girls’ names, 2025
Jesenia fell from #4,342 in 2015 to #7,282 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 9.3 per million.
195 babies in 1990, the peak
Jesenia peaked in 1990, when 195 girls were given it, #963 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,282 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 13 | #8,164 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,522 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,112 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,819 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 27 | #4,814 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,514 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 17 | #6,927 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 26 | #5,110 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 31 | #4,577 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,342 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 41 | #3,745 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 36 | #4,113 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 42 | #3,745 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 52 | #3,194 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,768 | 0.04 |
| 2009 | 71 | #2,599 | 0.04 |
| 2008 | 114 | #1,871 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 102 | #2,009 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 83 | #2,293 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 110 | #1,783 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 119 | #1,632 | 0.06 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,567 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 130 | #1,471 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 116 | #1,595 | 0.06 |
| 2000 | 119 | #1,529 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 136 | #1,322 | 0.08 |
| 1998 | 123 | #1,394 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 134 | #1,298 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 161 | #1,123 | 0.09 |
| 1995 | 160 | #1,107 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 153 | #1,159 | 0.09 |
| 1993 | 180 | #1,024 | 0.10 |
| 1992 | 184 | #1,021 | 0.10 |
| 1991 | 175 | #1,043 | 0.09 |
| 1990 | 195 | #963 | 0.10 |
| 1989 | 167 | #1,023 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 148 | #1,069 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 187 | #898 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 101 | #1,317 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 87 | #1,440 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 87 | #1,366 | 0.05 |
| 1983 | 85 | #1,394 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,591 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 87 | #1,410 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 86 | #1,425 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 69 | #1,633 | 0.04 |
| 1978 | 73 | #1,527 | 0.05 |
| 1977 | 66 | #1,616 | 0.04 |
| 1976 | 50 | #1,852 | 0.03 |
| 1975 | 53 | #1,760 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 57 | #1,637 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 40 | #2,040 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 45 | #1,866 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 43 | #1,985 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jesenia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jesenia has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jesenia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jesenia, and how old are they?
4,660 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,770 Americans ever recorded as Jesenia. The median Jesenia alive today is 32 years old; half are between 23 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 4,166 people named Jesenia (4,153 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,589 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 550 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,180 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,620 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 311 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jesenia born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #3,534 | 1.1× |
Where Jesenia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jesenia is most over-represented in New Jersey: since 1971 it was given 2.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jesenia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 10,429 babies since 1880, Jesenia is the second most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 36 babies (42%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jesenia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jesenia and names like it
- Compare Jesenia and JesseniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJesenia peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jesenia since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Jesenia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jesenia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.