Yessenia
Yessenia was given to 18 girls in 2025, #6,535 among girls’ names; 7,466 Americans have been recorded with it since 1971 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,320 Americans named Yessenia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yessenia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yessenia?
#6,535 among girls’ names, 2025
Yessenia fell from #2,888 in 2015 to #6,535 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 34.2 to 11.2 per million.
337 babies in 1990, the peak
Yessenia peaked in 1990, when 337 babies were given it (330 girls, #662 among girls’ names). The 18 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 18 | #6,535 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 32 | #4,468 | 0.02 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,448 | 0.02 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,462 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 37 | #4,006 | 0.02 |
| 2020 | 34 | #4,162 | 0.02 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,785 | 0.02 |
| 2018 | 37 | #3,999 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 48 | #3,343 | 0.03 |
| 2016 | 54 | #3,098 | 0.03 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 61 | #2,888 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 71 | #2,532 | 0.04 |
| 2013 | 71 | #2,532 | 0.04 |
| 2012 | 83 | #2,285 | 0.05 |
| 2011 | 103 | #1,942 | 0.06 |
| 2010 | 133 | #1,628 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 136 | #1,649 | 0.07 |
| 2008 | 157 | #1,494 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 193 | #1,276 | 0.10 |
| 2006 | 192 | #1,256 | 0.10 |
| 2005 | 225 | #1,065 | 0.12 |
| 2004 | 239 | #992 | 0.13 |
| 2003 | 231 | #1,001 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 243 | #922 | 0.14 |
| 2001 | 253 | #899 | 0.14 |
| 2000 | 217 | #979 | 0.12 |
| 1999 | 264 | #822 | 0.15 |
| 1998 | 274 | #785 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 283 | #753 | 0.16 |
| 1996 | 315 | #691 | 0.18 |
| 1995 | 280 | #732 | 0.16 |
| 1994 | 277 | #749 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 316 | #687 | 0.17 |
| 1992 | 300 | #713 | 0.16 |
| 1991 | 278 | #748 | 0.15 |
| 1990 | 330 | #662 | 0.17 |
| 1989 | 235 | #810 | 0.13 |
| 1988 | 250 | #754 | 0.14 |
| 1987 | 249 | #728 | 0.14 |
| 1986 | 89 | #1,446 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 85 | #1,471 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 56 | #1,903 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 64 | #1,714 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 75 | #1,583 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 68 | #1,699 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 50 | #2,095 | 0.03 |
| 1979 | 50 | #2,048 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,090 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 39 | #2,339 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,863 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 38 | #2,230 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 49 | #1,819 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 37 | #2,170 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,172 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 22 | #3,163 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yessenia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yessenia has been given almost only to girls: 12 boys in 55 years of records.
Girls and boys named Yessenia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yessenia, and how old are they?
7,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 7,466 Americans ever recorded as Yessenia. The median Yessenia alive today is 29 years old; half are between 22 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 8,776 people named Yessenia (8,756 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,183 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 372 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 3,200 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,190 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 563 |
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 Yessenia born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 5 | #3,516 | 2.4× |
Where Yessenia is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yessenia is most over-represented in California: since 1971 it was given 2.4 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 Yessenia 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 Yessenia?
Yessenia is a less common spelling of Yesenia: SSA has recorded 7,466 Yessenia and 39,781 Yesenia since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 47,938 babies since 1880, Yessenia is the second most given (16% of them). In 2025 it was given to 18 of their 126 babies (14%), 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 Yessenia
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 Yessenia and names like it
- Compare Yessenia and YeseniaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sYessenia peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yessenia since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Yessenia.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Yessenia alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with YMost given first.