Jessenia
#5,722 for girls in 2025, 21 births
- Peak · girls
- 1993 · 219 births
- Debut · girls
- 12 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,428since 1971
Jessenia over time
Rank among girls' names. Jessenia has never cracked the top 800 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,722 | 21 |
| 2024 | #5,799 | 21 |
| 2023 | #4,114 | 35 |
| 2022 | #4,472 | 31 |
| 2021 | #5,237 | 24 |
| 2020 | #3,841 | 37 |
| 2019 | #4,653 | 29 |
| 2018 | #2,962 | 55 |
| 2017 | #3,697 | 41 |
| 2016 | #3,280 | 49 |
| 2015 | #4,144 | 35 |
| 2014 | #3,005 | 56 |
| 2013 | #2,597 | 68 |
| 2012 | #2,132 | 89 |
| 2011 | #2,274 | 82 |
| 2010 | #1,978 | 101 |
| 2009 | #1,792 | 120 |
| 2008 | #2,042 | 101 |
| 2007 | #1,635 | 136 |
| 2006 | #1,581 | 136 |
| 2005 | #1,466 | 144 |
| 2004 | #1,470 | 137 |
| 2003 | #1,446 | 136 |
| 2002 | #1,363 | 142 |
| 2001 | #1,200 | 170 |
| 2000 | #1,266 | 154 |
| 1999 | #1,206 | 158 |
| 1998 | #1,167 | 161 |
| 1997 | #1,030 | 186 |
| 1996 | #1,042 | 178 |
| 1995 | #1,113 | 159 |
| 1994 | #985 | 188 |
| 1993 | #881 | 219 |
| 1992 | #963 | 199 |
| 1991 | #904 | 215 |
| 1990 | #900 | 213 |
| 1989 | #1,051 | 162 |
| 1988 | #906 | 190 |
| 1987 | #959 | 167 |
| 1986 | #1,299 | 103 |
| 1985 | #1,259 | 108 |
| 1984 | #1,703 | 64 |
| 1983 | #1,585 | 70 |
| 1982 | #1,510 | 79 |
| 1981 | #1,663 | 69 |
| 1980 | #1,605 | 72 |
| 1979 | #1,530 | 76 |
| 1978 | #1,746 | 59 |
| 1977 | #2,091 | 45 |
| 1976 | #2,664 | 29 |
| 1975 | #2,232 | 37 |
| 1974 | #3,110 | 22 |
| 1973 | #3,233 | 20 |
| 1972 | #3,404 | 18 |
| 1971 | #4,534 | 12 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jessenia! It came in at #4,534, and was given to 12 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1971–1972, when fewer than 19 girls a year got the name.
Where Jessenia is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New York#428 · 1 in 2,826
- Massachusetts#474 · 1 in 4,379
- New Jersey#587 · 1 in 4,649
- California#1,197 · 1 in 12,564
Best ever in a state: #242 in Connecticut, 1988.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New York | #428 | 35 | 1 in 2,826 |
| Massachusetts | #474 | 7 | 1 in 4,379 |
| New Jersey | #587 | 8 | 1 in 4,649 |
| California | #1,197 | 13 | 1 in 12,564 |
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See more about Jessenia
- 77 spots since 2024 (#5,799 → #5,722)
- 1,881 spots since 2020 (#3,841 → #5,722)
- 1,578 spots since 2015 (#4,144 → #5,722)
- Biggest jump: 340 spots in 1987 (#1,299 → #959)
- Biggest drop: 145 spots in 1989 (#906 → #1,051)
- Debuted 1971
- Peaked 1993 at #881 (219 births)
- Births halved by 2008, 15 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 7 yrs · run 1990–1994
- Highest: 1 in 8,261 girls born in 1993 were named Jessenia (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 76,537 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 34.6% of all girls named Jessenia (1,876) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1970s | 318 | #1,530 (1979) | #2,727 |
| 1980s | 1,084 | #906 (1988) | #1,354 |
| 1990s | 1,876 | #881 (1993) | #1,019 |
| 2000s | 1,376 | #1,200 (2001) | #1,526 |
| 2010s | 605 | #1,978 (2010) | #3,072 |
| 2020s | 169 | #3,841 (2020) | #4,864 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jessenia in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 21,122 of them was named Jessenia, which outranked 87.2% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,517Kanisha77
- #1,517Racquel77
- #1,517Rebecka77
- #1,530Jessenia76
- #1,530Brea76
- #1,530Jaqueline76
- #1,530Jerilyn76
- #1,543Aleisha75
- #1,543Aurelia75
- #1,543Chrissie75
Tied with 12 names at #1,530; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.