Yessica
Yessica was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,102 among girls’ names; 3,956 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,890 Americans named Yessica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 20 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yessica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Yessica?
#6,102 among girls’ names, 2025
Yessica fell from #4,401 in 2015 to #6,102 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 18.5 to 12.4 per million.
175 babies in 1995, the peak
Yessica peaked in 1995, when 175 girls were given it, #1,035 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 11% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,102 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 20 | #6,152 | 12.3 |
| 2023 | 28 | #4,864 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,298 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,162 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 32 | #4,352 | 19.8 |
| 2019 | 35 | #4,152 | 20.9 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,142 | 15.3 |
| 2017 | 23 | #5,651 | 13.3 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,984 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 33 | #4,401 | 18.5 |
| 2014 | 39 | #3,919 | 21.8 |
| 2013 | 51 | #3,215 | 29.1 |
| 2012 | 49 | #3,360 | 27.8 |
| 2011 | 66 | #2,692 | 37.5 |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,073 | 30.9 |
| 2009 | 98 | #2,089 | 53.3 |
| 2008 | 111 | #1,912 | 58.7 |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,858 | 59.3 |
| 2006 | 133 | #1,614 | 70.0 |
| 2005 | 135 | #1,532 | 73.1 |
| 2004 | 148 | #1,411 | 80.6 |
| 2003 | 157 | #1,316 | 85.9 |
| 2002 | 142 | #1,368 | 79.0 |
| 2001 | 156 | #1,264 | 86.6 |
| 2000 | 149 | #1,295 | 82.0 |
| 1999 | 137 | #1,318 | 77.2 |
| 1998 | 148 | #1,233 | 83.8 |
| 1997 | 129 | #1,339 | 74.1 |
| 1996 | 141 | #1,243 | 80.4 |
| 1995 | 175 | #1,035 | 99.5 |
| 1994 | 162 | #1,112 | 90.7 |
| 1993 | 128 | #1,315 | 70.8 |
| 1992 | 150 | #1,171 | 81.3 |
| 1991 | 149 | #1,177 | 79.5 |
| 1990 | 120 | #1,335 | 63.2 |
| 1989 | 79 | #1,728 | 42.9 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,929 | 35.9 |
| 1987 | 72 | #1,697 | 41.4 |
| 1986 | 56 | #1,978 | 32.6 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,598 | 22.1 |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,079 | 29.1 |
| 1983 | 41 | #2,357 | 24.5 |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,326 | 25.4 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,926 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 33 | #2,799 | 19.9 |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,581 | 22.4 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,921 | 12.4 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,880 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,674 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 8 | #7,161 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 18 | #3,694 | 12.3 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,425 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Yessica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yessica has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 53 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yessica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yessica, and how old are they?
3,890 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 3,956 Americans ever recorded as Yessica. The median Yessica alive today is 27 years old; half are between 20 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 8,654 people named Yessica (8,633 women and girls, 21 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,768 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.3 times 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 | 143 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,460 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,910 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 378 |
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 Yessica born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 6 | #3,080 | 2.4× |
Where Yessica is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yessica is most over-represented in California: since 1973 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 Yessica 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 4 names spelled alike, given to 6,573 babies since 1880, Yessica is the most given (60% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 28 babies (71%), 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 Yessica
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 Yessica and names like it
- Compare Yessica and YesicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sYessica peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yessica since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Yessica.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Yessica alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with YMost given first.