Meaning not yet researched.
Jena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 23 in 2025. Its best rank was #371 in 1985.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #371 in 1985; #5,474 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,474 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1985, at #371.
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Jena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 23 girls in 2025. Peak: #371 in 1985 · most girls in one year: 619 (1986).
In 2025, 23 US girls were named Jena, making it the 5,474th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1,305 places from #6,779 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 17 girls named Jena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #371, reached in 1985. The most girls given the name in a single year was 619, in 1986. For comparison, it was #3,072 in 2015 and #2,290 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jena in 98 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1900 with 5 babies. In all, 13,248 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 4,082 babies named Jena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 304 US girls were named Jena; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 40. In 2025 that was about 1 in 69,881 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jenna (148,842 babies since 1880), Gena (12,824 babies since 1880), Jeanna (8,881 babies since 1880) and Jeana (7,694 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jenaye, Jynae and Jinah are summarised on this page.
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 English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jenaye (143), Jynae (10), Jinah (5), Jinay (5).
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 Jena 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.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 23 | #5,474 | — | — |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,779 | — | — |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,310 | — | — |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,232 | — | — |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,133 | — | — |
| 2020 | 29 | #4,601 | — | — |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,961 | — | — |
| 2018 | 39 | #3,813 | — | — |
| 2017 | 40 | #3,807 | — | — |
| 2016 | 35 | #4,196 | — | — |
| 2015 | 55 | #3,072 | — | — |
| 2014 | 53 | #3,123 | — | — |
| 2013 | 52 | #3,143 | — | — |
| 2012 | 81 | #2,324 | — | — |
| 2011 | 67 | #2,648 | — | — |
| 2010 | 104 | #1,932 | — | — |
| 2009 | 104 | #1,996 | — | — |
| 2008 | 115 | #1,857 | — | — |
| 2007 | 114 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 2006 | 163 | #1,393 | — | — |
| 2005 | 173 | #1,294 | — | — |
| 2004 | 211 | #1,089 | — | — |
| 2003 | 195 | #1,128 | — | — |
| 2002 | 228 | #972 | — | — |
| 2001 | 252 | #901 | — | — |
| 2000 | 217 | #977 | — | — |
| 1999 | 265 | #819 | — | — |
| 1998 | 240 | #879 | — | — |
| 1997 | 270 | #775 | — | — |
| 1996 | 302 | #706 | — | — |
| 1995 | 299 | #702 | — | — |
| 1994 | 325 | #658 | — | — |
| 1993 | 377 | #608 | — | — |
| 1992 | 429 | #547 | — | — |
| 1991 | 377 | #597 | — | — |
| 1990 | 417 | #563 | — | — |
| 1989 | 470 | #501 | — | — |
| 1988 | 498 | #453 | 7 | #6,067 |
| 1987 | 582 | #396 | — | — |
| 1986 | 619 | #375 | — | — |
| 1985 | 614 | #371 | — | — |
| 1984 | 492 | #427 | — | — |
| 1983 | 177 | #862 | — | — |
| 1982 | 178 | #866 | — | — |
| 1981 | 240 | #701 | — | — |
| 1980 | 205 | #796 | — | — |
| 1979 | 183 | #851 | — | — |
| 1978 | 186 | #805 | — | — |
| 1977 | 192 | #784 | — | — |
| 1976 | 170 | #821 | — | — |
| 1975 | 210 | #708 | — | — |
| 1974 | 173 | #788 | — | — |
| 1973 | 217 | #688 | — | — |
| 1972 | 136 | #916 | — | — |
| 1971 | 146 | #905 | — | — |
| 1970 | 140 | #923 | — | — |
| 1969 | 112 | #1,032 | — | — |
| 1968 | 126 | #920 | — | — |
| 1967 | 93 | #1,082 | — | — |
| 1966 | 100 | #1,044 | — | — |
| 1965 | 110 | #990 | — | — |
| 1964 | 120 | #966 | — | — |
| 1963 | 139 | #892 | — | — |
| 1962 | 110 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1961 | 90 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1960 | 69 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1959 | 53 | #1,485 | — | — |
| 1958 | 59 | #1,390 | — | — |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,556 | — | — |
| 1956 | 47 | #1,553 | — | — |
| 1955 | 41 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,812 | — | — |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,758 | — | — |
| 1951 | 20 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 1950 | 19 | #2,290 | — | — |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,783 | — | — |
| 1948 | 15 | #2,645 | — | — |
| 1947 | 28 | #1,839 | — | — |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,675 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,251 | — | — |
| 1944 | 7 | #3,868 | — | — |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,359 | — | — |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,944 | — | — |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,078 | — | — |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,994 | — | — |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,910 | — | — |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,992 | — | — |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,717 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,876 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,541 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,732 | — | — |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,449 | — | — |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,495 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,489 | — | — |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,647 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,330 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,067 | — | — |
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).