| The girl name Yesenia [ syll. ye-se-nia, yes-en-ia ] is pronounced YEHSahNiyah KEY. Yesenia is of Arabic origin and it is used mainly in English. Yessenia (spelling variant in English) is a form of the name. Yesenia is a variant of Jessenia (English). Yesenia is rather popular as a baby girl name. The name's popularity grew from the 1970s up to the 1980s; before that, it was of only infrequent use. Its usage peaked modestly in 1987 with 0.107% of baby girls being named Yesenia. It was #137 in rank then. The baby name has dropped in popularity since then. In 2007, it ranked at #473 with a usage of 0.032%, but it was nevertheless the most commonly used among all girl names in its family. Baby names that sound like Yesenia include Yessenia (English), Eugenia (German and Italian), Yasmina (English), Eugenie (German), Eugénie (French), Yasemin (Turkish), Yasmeen (English), Yasmin (English), Yasmine (English and French), and Yazmin (English). KEY: approx pronunciation for Yesenia: Y as in "yield (Y.IY.L.D)" ; EH as in "Ed (EH.D)" ; S as in "sea (S.IY)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)" ; N as in "knee (N.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; AH as in "hut (HH.AH.T)"
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