# Yesenia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yesenia/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 39,781 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 314 / 39,467 (99% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 11, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 297 | 883 |
| 2012 | 292 | 900 |
| 2013 | 239 | 1,041 |
| 2014 | 200 | 1,227 |
| 2015 | 181 | 1,316 |
| 2016 | 183 | 1,311 |
| 2017 | 150 | 1,488 |
| 2018 | 134 | 1,608 |
| 2019 | 133 | 1,606 |
| 2020 | 145 | 1,484 |
| 2021 | 114 | 1,790 |
| 2022 | 116 | 1,780 |
| 2023 | 133 | 1,585 |
| 2024 | 138 | 1,552 |
| 2025 | 103 | 1,901 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 10 | 4,212 |
| 1985 | 19 | 2,707 |
| 1986 | 13 | 3,650 |
| 1987 | 41 | 1,683 |
| 1988 | 26 | 2,364 |
| 1989 | 22 | 2,899 |
| 1990 | 28 | 2,486 |
| 1991 | 14 | 4,223 |
| 1992 | 16 | 3,914 |
| 1993 | 17 | 3,815 |
| 1994 | 16 | 4,089 |
| 1995 | 19 | 3,557 |
| 1997 | 6 | 9,239 |
| 1998 | 5 | 11,287 |
| 2004 | 6 | 11,316 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2017 | 4 | 4,763 |
| 2024 | 3 | 5,891 |
| 2025 | 4 | 4,867 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.