Feminine dossier · first seen 1971

Yessenia

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Yessenia
Creator: Social Security Administration

Endangered Down 90.3% from peak

Peak era

1990

Peak rank proxy

330

Current vitality

Rare

Generation

Millennial

1971Peak 19902024

Peak year

1990

Decline from peak

90.3%

2024

All-time

7,436

Yessenia once had enough force to mark a generation, but its current usage is a small remnant of that peak. The name still exists, yet now reads as a timestamp: personal, recognizable, and culturally receding.

Your name peaked in 1990, when 330 girls were named Yessenia.

In 2024, only 32 girls were given the name.

Down 90.3% from its peak.

All told, about 7,436 Americans have been named Yessenia and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1971.

Rarity score99th percentile rare

AssociationMillennial

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryDown 90.3% from peak

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