Yecenia
Yecenia was last recorded in 2011, when 8 babies were given it; 1,235 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2011 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,200 Americans named Yecenia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 29 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yecenia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yecenia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,295, in 2011; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
77 babies in 1990, the peak
Yecenia peaked in 1990, when 77 girls were given it, #1,857 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 8 | #13,295 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,398 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,948 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,783 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,795 | 5.7 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,373 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 13 | #8,862 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 24 | #5,368 | 13.1 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,407 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 26 | #4,758 | 14.5 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 22 | #5,355 | 12.2 |
| 2000 | 31 | #4,070 | 17.1 |
| 1999 | 39 | #3,309 | 22.0 |
| 1998 | 34 | #3,568 | 19.2 |
| 1997 | 31 | #3,707 | 17.8 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,790 | 25.1 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,079 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 57 | #2,317 | 31.9 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,719 | 24.9 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,644 | 25.5 |
| 1991 | 50 | #2,512 | 26.7 |
| 1990 | 77 | #1,857 | 40.6 |
| 1989 | 61 | #2,066 | 33.1 |
| 1988 | 41 | #2,637 | 23.0 |
| 1987 | 51 | #2,152 | 29.3 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,679 | 21.6 |
| 1985 | 23 | #3,728 | 13.4 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,066 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,683 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 28 | #3,168 | 16.5 |
| 1981 | 30 | #2,984 | 18.0 |
| 1980 | 30 | #3,000 | 18.1 |
| 1979 | 34 | #2,670 | 21.2 |
| 1978 | 23 | #3,386 | 15.0 |
| 1977 | 28 | #2,906 | 18.3 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,929 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 23 | #3,153 | 15.8 |
| 1974 | 24 | #3,007 | 16.4 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,965 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 19 | #3,402 | 12.5 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,306 | 8.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yecenia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yecenia has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 41 years of records.
Girls and boys named Yecenia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yecenia, and how old are they?
1,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,235 Americans ever recorded as Yecenia. The median Yecenia alive today is 36 years old; half are between 29 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 1,303 people named Yecenia (1,303 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,209 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 224 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 661 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 315 |
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 Yecenia born?
The states with the most babies named Yecenia are California, Texas and New York, with 93% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 499 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| Texas | 99 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 30 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Florida | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 11 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Yecenia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yecenia is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 3.0 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 Yecenia with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Yecenia?
Yecenia is a less common spelling of Yesenia: SSA has recorded 1,235 Yecenia and 39,781 Yesenia since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 41,016 babies since 1880, Yecenia is the second most given (3.0% of them). In 2025 none of their 103 babies recorded by SSA was a Yecenia (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 Yecenia
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 Yecenia and names like it
- Compare Yecenia and YeseniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sYecenia peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yecenia since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Yecenia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Yecenia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with YMost given first.