Yessenia

given name · Spanish · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Yessenia is a given name, most frequently recorded in Peru. In Honduras it is the 72nd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and English, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • HNHonduras1 in 1.3K◐
  • SVEl Salvador1 in 1.6K
  • NINicaragua1 in 2.2K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈17K ●

across 7 countries

Sources
250 ●

144K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 2.6K ◐

Ecuador

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Yessenia is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PE Peru#55052,21840K rec.——Yessenia51
CL Chile#40223,0451.6K rec.—3Yessenia68
MX Mexico#95121,51815K rec.—45Yessenia106
SV El Salvador#18816,89213K rec.——Yessenia23
HN Honduras#7214,01214K rec.——Yessenia24
VE Venezuela—11,7895.9K rec.—1.9KYessenia28
US United States—8,75629K rec.1 in 38K8.8KYessenia250
NI Nicaragua#1136,9826.9K rec.——Yessenia20
EC Ecuador#5166,608△379 rec.1 in 2.6K6.6KYessenia40
LA Laos#8246291 rec.——Yessenia2
CR Costa Rica—6182.3K rec.1 in 8.2K618Yessenia32
ES Spain—4713K rec.1 in 106K471Yessenia66

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Spanish181K77%
  • English25K11%
  • 2.8K1%
  • Portuguese2.4K1%
  • Lao6521%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish181,44277%
English25,01811%
2,8421%
Portuguese2,3521%
Lao6521%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Yessenia is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name68 records spelled Yessenia2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Peru, United States

    Also written Yêssêñíâ

38 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

02004006001960198020002020417 · 1993

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Yessenia in INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024), Ecuador, 1958–2024
Yearrecords
19582
19601
19611
19641
19661
19675
19682
19692
19702
19711
19723
197343
1974101
1975103
197682
1977113
1978265
1979279
1980212
1981197
1982170
1983168
1984182
1985191
1986149
1987119
1988150
1989148
1990148
1991172
1992269
1993417
1994333
1995365
1996267
1997210
1998231
1999203
2000136
2001135
2002137
200392
2004126
200580
200695
200784
200864
200957
201050
201143
201233
201329
201431
201521
201616
201719
201814
201914
20206
20217
20226
20237
20241

EC INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) — 63 years between 1958–2024. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1970198019902000Yessenia Coely Zelaya, b. 1974Yessenia López, b. 1990Yessenia Huenteo, b. 1992

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 33 sources across 19 countries.

Official registers attesting Yessenia
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20208.8K#2,676
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)—6.6K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20246.6K#288
VE Venezuelaasosab — SAIME ID-card names (1896–1996)—1.9K#849
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)1989725—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)1990637—
CR Costa RicaTSE — electoral roll (padrón) names—618#748
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)1992585—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)1991566—
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)1993543—
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—471#4,766
CL ChileSRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021)1994417—

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 301 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Yessenia?
We estimate roughly 17 thousand people bear Yessenia (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
In which country does Yessenia have the most bearers?
Yessenia is most frequently recorded in Peru, where it is most often spelled yessenia.
How common is Yessenia compared with other names?
In Peru, Yessenia is the 550th most common given name of 221,790 given names recorded there.
Is Yessenia a male or female name?
Yessenia is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Yessenia” — the 550th most common given name in Peru. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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