How popular is the name Yessenia?

Yessenia ranks 1,662nd among girls' names in US records, with 7,448 births since 1971. Over the past decade it accounts for 407.

Is Yessenia a unisex name?

No. Yessenia is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1990, when 330 children were given the name. It has been in use for 54 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Girl name#1,662 of girl names

Pronounced Y EH1 S S EH1 N IY1 AH0 (ARPABET)

Yessenia is a girls' name, and first appears in 1971. It has been given to 7,448 children — the 1,662nd most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 407 births across the past decade, against a peak of 330 in a single year. That peak was in 1990.

1990Girls: 330Boys: 7

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Yessenia?: Yessenia ranks 1,662nd among girls' names in US records, with 7,448 births since 1971. Over the past decade it accounts for 407.
Is Yessenia a unisex name?: No. Yessenia is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Yessenia most popular?: 1990, when 330 children were given the name. It has been in use for 54 years and is still recorded as of 2024.