Yesenia

A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — four syllables, given to 149 babies a year in the US.

Babies a year
149
the US, 2017
Rarity
Rare
among names in use
US popularity
—
outside the top 1000
UK popularity
#4867
4 babies

Yesenia by the numbers

In 2025, 4 babies in England and Wales were named Yesenia. In the US, 149 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.

For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in the US than in England and Wales.

Its American peak was 2,002 babies in 1987, so it is a 1980s name that has since fallen a long way.

What we can tell you about Yesenia

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 Yesenia. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.

  • Yessenia48 in the US (2017)
  • Yelenabright light; shining; a form of helen41 in the US (2017)
  • Yeshia14 in the US (2017)
  • Yeshna3 in England and Wales (2025)

Names about as common as Yesenia

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