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Yessenia - Origin and Meaning of the name

 
 

 


The girl name Yessenia [ syll. yes-se-nia, ye-ssen-ia ] is pronounced as YEHS-ahNiyah KEY. Yessenia is used mostly in the English language and it is of Arabic origin. Yessenia is a variant form of the English name Jessenia. Yessenia is a variant spelling of the English name Yesenia.

Yessenia is rare as a baby name for girls. At the peak of its usage in 1996, 0.016% of baby girls were given the name Yessenia. Its ranking then was #689. The baby name has since suffered a substantial fall in frequency, and is currently used on a very modest scale. In 2007, out of the group of girl names directly linked to Yessenia, the English Yesenia was the most frequently used.

Baby names that sound like Yessenia include the English Yesenia, the German and Italian Eugenia, the English Yasmina, the German Eugenie, the French Eugénie, the Turkish Yasemin, the English Yasmeen, the English Yasmin, the English and French Yasmine, and the English Yazmin.

KEY: approx pronunciation for Yessenia: 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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