Yessenia
About 7,466 American babies have been named Yessenia since 1971, most of them around 1990. In 2025 it ranked 6,325th. About 7,300 Yessenias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Yessenia boys named Yessenia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 7,466
- Estimated living today
- 7,300
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 1990
- Best rank
- 663rd
- Rank in 2025
- 6,325th
- First recorded
- 1971
- Girls / boys
- 7,454 / 12
How old the living Yessenias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 7,466 babies given the name since 1971, about 7,300 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Yessenia is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Yessenia is most concentrated in California (4.2×), Arizona (3.3×), Nevada (2.7×), Texas (2.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1990
The most popular girls’ names the year Yessenia peaked:
Where Yessenia lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 471 women called Yessenia were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Melilla | Yessenia | 32 | 0.739 | 254 |
| Ceuta | Yessenia | 5 | 0.121 | 746 |
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Yessenia | 36 | 0.065 | 1,272 |
| Palmas, Las | Yessenia | 27 | 0.046 | 1,819 |
| Bizkaia | Yessenia | 21 | 0.035 | 1,521 |
| Cádiz | Yessenia | 21 | 0.033 | 1,144 |
Listed in 25 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 27 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Yessenia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.