girls:
39.2k births since 1966
#686 (88th percentile)
boys:
314 births since 1974
#4272 (7th percentile)
overall:
39.5k births since 1966
#1245 (84th percentile)
The name Yesenia is the #1,245 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 39,537 recorded births since 1966. This represents the 83.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 83.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #686 (88.0% percentile) for all time with 39,223 births since 1966. For boys, it ranks #4,272 (6.8% percentile) for all time with 314 births since 1974.
Yesenia first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1966 (1966 for girls and 1974 for boys).
The name Yesenia has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Yesenia reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 83.1% percentile (ranked #136) with 1,069 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 1,069 births per million (ranked 83.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1994, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Yesenia ranks #820 for girls (13.4% percentile) with 75 births per million, which is 7.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Yesenia reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #677) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 21 births per million (ranked 5.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Yesenia".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Yesenia. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 83.3% confident that Yesenia is pronounced as yeh-SEH-nee-uh, which has 4 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is yeh-SEE-nee-uh, at 16.7% confidence, with 4 syllables.
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