Jessenia

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 40 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
40
the US, 2017
Rarity
Very rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
—
outside the ONS list

Jessenia by the numbers

Jessenia was given to 40 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

Its American peak was 218 babies in 1993, so it is a 1990s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Jessenia

Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.

Spelled almost the same

Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jessenia. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Jesenia25 in the US (2017)
  • Jessiavariant of Jessica; God beholds20 in the US (2017)
  • Josselinmember of the Gauts tribe; jousting21 in the US (2017)
  • JesselynGod hears; a form of Jessica with -lyn suffix10 in the US (2017)
  • Jesselle13 in the US (2017)

Names about as common as Jessenia

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