Jessenya
Jessenya was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 140 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jessenya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jessenya?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,055, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
12 babies in 2005, the peak
Jessenya peaked in 2005, when 12 girls were given it, #9,130 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #18,055 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,617 | 5.1 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,847 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,662 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 9 | #12,033 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,074 | 4.7 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,235 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,130 | 6.5 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,370 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,033 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2002 | 5 | #16,607 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 5 | #16,120 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,385 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,138 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,360 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,122 | 5.1 |
| 1991 | 9 | #8,901 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,626 | 4.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jessenya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jessenya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jessenya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jessenya, and how old are they?
An estimated 138 Americans named Jessenya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 18 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 135 people named Jessenya (133 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 139 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Jessenya?
Jessenya is a less common spelling of Jessenia: SSA has recorded 140 Jessenya and 5,428 Jessenia since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 10,557 babies since 1880, Jessenya is the third most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 36 babies recorded by SSA was a Jessenya (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jessenya
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 Jessenya and names like it
- Compare Jessenya and JesseniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJessenya peaked in 2005.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Jessenya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jessenya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.