Fenna is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Fiona, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Fenna: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 11 in 2025. Its best rank was #8,180 in 2021.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #8,180 in 2021; #9,053 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Fenna in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#9,053 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2021, at #8,180.
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Fenna: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 11 girls in 2025. Peak: #8,180 in 2021 · most girls in one year: 13 (2022).
In 2025, 11 US girls were named Fenna, making it the 9,053rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 432 places from #8,621 in 2024. That is 1 fewer than the 12 girls named Fenna in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #8,180, reached in 2021. The most girls given the name in a single year was 13, in 2022. For comparison, it was #8,619 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Fenna in 14 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2003 with 5 babies. In all, 132 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 67 babies named Fenna.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 102 US girls were named Fenna; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 13. In 2025 that was about 1 in 146,115 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Fiona (33,964 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Fenna in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).