Yeseniya
The Slavic root reads as "autumn," a name once given to girls born in the fall. It barely exists in Poland: about 35 women carry it, and most people here will never meet one.
Yeseniya Pronunciation
Yeseniya is pronounced ih-e-se-NYIH-ah (/ɨɛsɛˈɲɨa/).
What Yeseniya means
Where Yeseniya comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yeseniya has Slavic roots and a Russian face. The Polish gloss ties it to jesień, autumn, and to a child urodzona jesienią, born when the leaves turn. That reading links the name to the Russian word for autumn, esen, and to the surname of the poet Sergei Yesenin.
A second meaning travels from far away. In Spanish the name matches Jessenia, a genus of palm trees from the Amazon. That palm-tree sense was attached to the name later, through Latin American usage, and it now sits beside the autumn reading.
The name spread through television. A 1970 Mexican telenovela called Yesenia, and its 1971 film version, carried it to millions. The heroine was a Roma woman, and the story made the name popular across the Spanish-speaking world.
In a Polish class register, Yeseniya stands out among the Zuzias and Julkas. It has no Polish diminutive of its own. The spine of it stays plain: a Slavic name, read in Poland as autumn, jesień.
How many people are named Yeseniya
1 in 644110 women in Poland is named Yeseniya. 35 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #6801 among female names.
Yeseniya's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.