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Yesenia

Yesenia means "Arabic-derived (from Ihsan)" and comes from Arabic, giving it real etymological depth as a girl's name. It is not as common as it was in the 1990s, though it has not disappeared. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. In total, about 38,748 American babies have carried this name since 1900.

ArabicArabic-derived (from "Ihsan")
EtymologyPopularized as meaning "flower" via a telenovela
Births by decade
1900s
0
1910s
0
1920s
0
1930s
0
1940s
0
1950s
0
1960s
51
1970s
4,167
1980s
8,380
1990s
15,291
2000s
8,913
2010s
1,946
Peaked in the 1990s · 38,748 total U.S. births since 1900