Jessenia
Jessenia was given to 21 girls in 2025, #5,808 among girls’ names; 5,428 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,320 Americans named Jessenia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 21 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jessenia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jessenia?
#5,808 among girls’ names, 2025
Jessenia fell from #4,182 in 2015 to #5,808 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 19.6 to 13.1 per million.
219 babies in 1993, the peak
Jessenia peaked in 1993, when 219 girls were given it, #883 among girls’ names. The 21 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 21 | #5,808 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,869 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 35 | #4,146 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,521 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,308 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,867 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,706 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 55 | #2,977 | 0.03 |
| 2017 | 41 | #3,732 | 0.02 |
| 2016 | 49 | #3,303 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 35 | #4,182 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,020 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 68 | #2,614 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 89 | #2,138 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 82 | #2,284 | 0.05 |
| 2010 | 101 | #1,984 | 0.06 |
| 2009 | 120 | #1,799 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 101 | #2,046 | 0.05 |
| 2007 | 136 | #1,640 | 0.07 |
| 2006 | 136 | #1,584 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 144 | #1,469 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 137 | #1,474 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 136 | #1,447 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 142 | #1,364 | 0.08 |
| 2001 | 170 | #1,200 | 0.09 |
| 2000 | 154 | #1,266 | 0.08 |
| 1999 | 158 | #1,205 | 0.09 |
| 1998 | 161 | #1,167 | 0.09 |
| 1997 | 186 | #1,032 | 0.11 |
| 1996 | 178 | #1,042 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 159 | #1,113 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 188 | #988 | 0.11 |
| 1993 | 219 | #883 | 0.12 |
| 1992 | 199 | #965 | 0.11 |
| 1991 | 215 | #903 | 0.11 |
| 1990 | 213 | #899 | 0.11 |
| 1989 | 162 | #1,051 | 0.09 |
| 1988 | 190 | #908 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 167 | #959 | 0.10 |
| 1986 | 103 | #1,300 | 0.06 |
| 1985 | 108 | #1,259 | 0.06 |
| 1984 | 64 | #1,711 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 70 | #1,590 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 79 | #1,516 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 69 | #1,668 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 72 | #1,616 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 76 | #1,533 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 59 | #1,758 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 45 | #2,102 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,684 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 37 | #2,251 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,150 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 20 | #3,277 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,452 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,655 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jessenia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jessenia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 55 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jessenia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jessenia, and how old are they?
5,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 5,428 Americans ever recorded as Jessenia. The median Jessenia alive today is 30 years old; half are between 21 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 5,046 people named Jessenia (5,033 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,187 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 370 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 2,320 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,130 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 499 |
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 Jessenia born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 6 | #3,091 | 1.3× |
Where Jessenia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jessenia is most over-represented in New York: since 1971 it was given 2.6 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 Jessenia 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 5 names spelled alike, given to 10,557 babies since 1880, Jessenia is the most given (51% of them). In 2025 it was given to 21 of their 36 babies (58%), again the 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 Jessenia
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 Jessenia and names like it
- Compare Jessenia and JeseniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJessenia peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jessenia since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Jessenia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jessenia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.