Girl · Modern Mexican coinage
Yesenia
Say it: yeh-SEH-nyah
Meaning
Popularised by 'Yesenia', the heroine of a Mexican comic by Yolanda Vargas Dulché and its film and telenovela adaptations; no traditional meaning is known.
Uncertainseveral explanations, none settled.
Spread after the Yesenia stories became popular in the 1960s and 1970s.
Its wave through time
A fashion of the 1980s
In the United States
- 39,163 babies given this name since 1966
- At its height in 1987, about 1 in 868 girls
- 142 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Jesenia
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Where this comes from
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- Well-known works of literature
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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