Yunalesca
Square's 2001 role-playing video game Final Fantasy X is the tenth game of the Final Fantasy series. It features several fictional characters designed by Tetsuya Nomura, who wanted the main characters' designs and names to be connected with their personalities and roles in the plot. The game takes place in Spira, which features multiple tribes.
Meaning & Origin of Yunalesca
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Square's 2001 role-playing video game Final Fantasy X is the tenth game of the Final Fantasy series. It features several fictional characters designed by Tetsuya Nomura, who wanted the main characters' designs and names to be connected with their personalities and roles in the plot. The game takes place in Spira, which features multiple tribes.
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The Story of Yunalesca
The earliest SSA record of Yunalesca as a baby girl name dates back to 2007, when 5 babies received it. 2023 was its biggest year on record, with 9 newborns named Yunalesca — #10,293 in the national rankings. About 47% of every Yunalesca on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Yunalesca last appeared in the published SSA data in 2023, with 9 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 59 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2000s to the 2020s.
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About the name Yunalesca
Yunalesca is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2007 and has accumulated 59 births in the dataset. Yunalesca's peak popularity came in 2023 when it ranked #10,293. Use the chart and map above to compare Yunalesca's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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