girls:
4.7k births since 1971
#2466 (57th percentile)
boys:
6 births since 1989
#4580 (0th percentile)
overall:
4.7k births since 1971
#3966 (49th percentile)
The name Jesenia is the #3,966 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,742 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 48.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 48.7% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,466 (56.9% percentile) for all time with 4,736 births since 1971. For boys, it ranks #4,580 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 6 births since 1989.
Jesenia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (1971 for girls and 1989 for boys).
The name Jesenia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jesenia reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 22.3% percentile (ranked #623) with 100 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 100 births per million (ranked 22.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1993, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jesenia ranks #934 for girls (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 10.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jesenia reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1989, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jesenia".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Jesenia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.5% confident that Jesenia is pronounced as jeh-SEH-nee-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jeh-SEH-nyuh, at 18.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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