girls:
5.4k births since 1971
#2286 (60th percentile)
overall:
5.4k births since 1971
#3723 (52nd percentile)
The name Jessenia is the #3,723 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,385 recorded births since 1971. This represents the 51.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 51.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,286 (60.0% percentile) for all time with 5,385 births since 1971.
Jessenia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1971 (first recorded for girls in 1971).
For girls, Jessenia reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 24.8% percentile (ranked #651) with 111 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 111 births per million (ranked 24.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1994, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jessenia ranks #917 for girls (3.2% percentile) with 20 births per million, which is 18.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jessenia".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Jessenia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 63.3% confident that Jessenia is pronounced as jeh-SEH-nee-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-seh-nee-uh, at 16.7% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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