Girls' name · since 1988
Yescenia
Yescenia has 15 recorded births since 1988 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1988 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #50,350 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 15
- born since 1988
- 2000s
- peak decade
Yescenia is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 15 have been recorded since 1988.
Yescenia has 15 recorded births among girls since 1988, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1988 to 2002.
- #50,350 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 15 born since 1988
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Yescenia ranks #50,350 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 15 born since 1988, peaking in the 2000s.
- #50,350 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 15
- born since 1988
- 2000s
- peak decade
Yescenia's 15 recorded births place it above 30.35% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Yescenia's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Yescenia's SSA record in two at 2000 and the more recent half accounts for 67% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 33%, consistent with a name still gaining ground rather than fading. Its calmest year was 1988, with only 5 births recorded.
Yescenia popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1988–2002
- Peak year (1988)
- 5
- Annual births at peak, across 15 years of records
Yescenia by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (10 births, 67% of the file).
2000s was Yescenia's strongest decade.
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 67% of all-time use.
Yescenia births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
5 births
- 2000s
2000s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 10 births (67% of all-time use).
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Related Names
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Nationwide names with similar peak year or record span
Two nationwide peer axes for Yescenia: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1988)
Similar record span (~14 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1988–2002 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Yescenia draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.