Name meaning & stats
Yessenia
Yessenia means “palm tree (debated)”. 7,466 US babies since 1940, peak 1990.
What it means
“palm tree (debated)”
Spelling of Yesenia
In US birth records
Peak year: 1990
7,466 US babies were named Yessenia between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Yessenia (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 7 Yesenias spell it Yessenia
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 1990)