# Yessenia (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yessenia/  
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 | 7,466 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 12 / 7,454 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 | 103 | 1,942 |
| 2012 | 83 | 2,285 |
| 2013 | 71 | 2,532 |
| 2014 | 71 | 2,534 |
| 2015 | 61 | 2,888 |
| 2016 | 54 | 3,098 |
| 2017 | 48 | 3,343 |
| 2018 | 37 | 4,000 |
| 2019 | 40 | 3,786 |
| 2020 | 34 | 4,164 |
| 2021 | 37 | 4,009 |
| 2022 | 32 | 4,464 |
| 2023 | 32 | 4,451 |
| 2024 | 32 | 4,470 |
| 2025 | 18 | 6,536 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1988 | 5 | 8,474 |
| 1990 | 7 | 7,171 |

## People named Yessenia

- Yessenia López, Chilean footballer

## 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.