Yeseniia
A newcomer here: no births recorded before 2022, and only a handful of girls a year since, so most Poles have never met one. The name is Slavic and traces back to a word for the palm tree.
Yeseniia Pronunciation
Yeseniia is pronounced ih-e-SENY-yah (/ɨɛˈsɛɲja/).
What Yeseniia means
Where Yeseniia comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Yeseniia is a Slavic name carried in Ukraine, given to girls. Its short meaning sends you somewhere far south of Kyiv. The meaning is palm tree. That is a strange picture to hold in a country of birch and pine, and the strangeness is part of why the name draws attention.
Where a Slavic root and a southern tree meet is not fully settled, so the palm sense reads as a meaning attached to the name rather than its first cause. Still, it gives Yeseniia a bright, sunlit register that few Ukrainian names reach for. No common diminutives or variants are recorded here, so the name stands on its own, spelled out in full.
Picture a class register: Yeseniia set between shorter names, the double i at the end holding its length. The name keeps its shape when written in full, and its meaning stays fixed: palm tree, palma.
How many people are named Yeseniia
1 in 61094 women in Poland is named Yeseniia. 369 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1556 among female names.
Yeseniia's popularity over time
5 girls were given the name in 2025, ranking #980 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2021.
Where Yeseniia is most popular
Yeseniia is most popular in Lublin, 952% above the national average (2 girls born 2019–2025), followed by Masovian (+205%).