How rare is the name Yessenia?

8,776 people in the United States have the first name Yessenia, about 1 in 34,416. It ranks #2,676 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

YESSENIA

#2,676

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
8,776
About
1 in 34,416
This common or more
80.5%
Who bears it

Of the 8,776 people named Yessenia, 97.5% reported their origin as Hispanic or Latino and 1.4% as White. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Yessenia peaked in 1990, when 337 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
19712025
Peak year
1990
Births that year
337
In 2025*
18 ▼95%
Recorded as
almost entirely female

At least 7,466 babies have been given the name since 1971. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Yessenia by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #1,336. The largest share of babies named Yessenia, 43.9%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1970s#3,722344
1980s#1,9431,226
1990s#1,3362,924
2000s#1,9952,086
2010s#4,466701
2020s#7,767185
Generation X 1965–805.3%
Millennials 1981–9643.9%
Generation Z 1997–1243.2%
2013 and later7.6%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Yessenia is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Yessenia has been most common in California (4.2×), Arizona (3.3×), and Nevada (2.7×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.24×).

5,857 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Yessenia

#2,674 Deidra · 8,785#2,675 Cason · 8,783#2,677 Antwan · 8,771#2,677 Marquita · 8,771

Spelled almost the same

8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Yessenia, most common first.

#904 Yesenia · 49,764#10,294 Yecenia · 1,303#21,351 Yezenia · 476#37,821 Yesinia · 205#40,051 Yesena · 187#43,660 Yesnia · 161#47,034 Yesennia · 140#48,183 Yessina · 133

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