Meaning not yet researched.
Tena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #318 in 1883.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #318 in 1883; #17,031 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Tena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#17,031 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1883, at #318.
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Tena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 girls in 2025. Peak: #318 in 1883 · most girls in one year: 345 (1962).
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Tena, making it the 17,031st most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #318, reached in 1883. The most girls given the name in a single year was 345, in 1962. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and #1,152 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Tena in 141 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 19 babies. In all, 8,186 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 2,482 babies named Tena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 79 US girls were named Tena; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 321,453 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Tina (293,050 babies since 1880), Teena (5,746 babies since 1880), Trena (5,160 babies since 1880) and Tiana (29,862 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Tenaya, Teyona and Theona 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 Croatian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Tenaya (1,008), Teyona (321), Theona (213).
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 Tena 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 | 5 | #17,031 | — | — |
| 2023 | 10 | #10,248 | — | — |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,327 | — | — |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,490 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #11,006 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,289 | — | — |
| 2018 | 12 | #9,104 | — | — |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,986 | — | — |
| 2016 | 6 | #16,061 | — | — |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,669 | — | — |
| 2011 | 5 | #19,350 | — | — |
| 2010 | 9 | #12,182 | — | — |
| 2009 | 6 | #17,108 | — | — |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,716 | — | — |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,829 | — | — |
| 2006 | 6 | #16,954 | — | — |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,913 | — | — |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,586 | — | — |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,878 | — | — |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,154 | — | — |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,673 | — | — |
| 1999 | 14 | #7,202 | — | — |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,215 | — | — |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,703 | — | — |
| 1996 | 16 | #6,042 | — | — |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,237 | — | — |
| 1994 | 10 | #8,742 | — | — |
| 1993 | 10 | #8,669 | — | — |
| 1992 | 13 | #7,034 | — | — |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,224 | — | — |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,113 | — | — |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,351 | — | — |
| 1988 | 17 | #5,051 | — | — |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,267 | — | — |
| 1986 | 30 | #3,128 | — | — |
| 1985 | 28 | #3,236 | — | — |
| 1984 | 27 | #3,227 | — | — |
| 1983 | 27 | #3,144 | — | — |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,696 | — | — |
| 1981 | 53 | #2,007 | — | — |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,434 | — | — |
| 1979 | 71 | #1,604 | — | — |
| 1978 | 46 | #2,088 | — | — |
| 1977 | 53 | #1,898 | — | — |
| 1976 | 71 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1975 | 79 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1974 | 100 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1973 | 99 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1972 | 121 | #992 | — | — |
| 1971 | 156 | #867 | — | — |
| 1970 | 146 | #905 | — | — |
| 1969 | 162 | #811 | — | — |
| 1968 | 197 | #690 | — | — |
| 1967 | 205 | #677 | — | — |
| 1966 | 202 | #688 | — | — |
| 1965 | 232 | #645 | — | — |
| 1964 | 232 | #670 | — | — |
| 1963 | 270 | #614 | — | — |
| 1962 | 345 | #527 | — | — |
| 1961 | 319 | #556 | — | — |
| 1960 | 318 | #544 | — | — |
| 1959 | 289 | #581 | — | — |
| 1958 | 257 | #616 | — | — |
| 1957 | 262 | #604 | — | — |
| 1956 | 267 | #577 | — | — |
| 1955 | 194 | #674 | — | — |
| 1954 | 92 | #1,027 | — | — |
| 1953 | 92 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1952 | 82 | #1,045 | — | — |
| 1951 | 56 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1950 | 65 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1949 | 63 | #1,152 | — | — |
| 1948 | 54 | #1,248 | — | — |
| 1947 | 49 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1946 | 54 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1945 | 41 | #1,259 | — | — |
| 1944 | 58 | #1,039 | — | — |
| 1943 | 63 | #1,003 | — | — |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,626 | — | — |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,798 | — | — |
| 1940 | 28 | #1,470 | — | — |
| 1939 | 23 | #1,632 | — | — |
| 1938 | 24 | #1,592 | — | — |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,303 | — | — |
| 1936 | 14 | #2,253 | — | — |
| 1935 | 20 | #1,773 | — | — |
| 1934 | 18 | #1,906 | — | — |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,966 | — | — |
| 1932 | 22 | #1,677 | — | — |
| 1931 | 31 | #1,332 | — | — |
| 1930 | 29 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 1929 | 29 | #1,443 | — | — |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,583 | — | — |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,883 | — | — |
| 1926 | 43 | #1,180 | — | — |
| 1925 | 24 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1924 | 48 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 1923 | 40 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1922 | 45 | #1,156 | — | — |
| 1921 | 36 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1920 | 49 | #1,073 | — | — |
| 1919 | 45 | #1,101 | — | — |
| 1918 | 53 | #996 | — | — |
| 1917 | 65 | #855 | — | — |
| 1916 | 49 | #990 | — | — |
| 1915 | 60 | #846 | — | — |
| 1914 | 44 | #886 | — | — |
| 1913 | 54 | #711 | — | — |
| 1912 | 42 | #779 | — | — |
| 1911 | 29 | #810 | — | — |
| 1910 | 23 | #912 | — | — |
| 1909 | 30 | #745 | — | — |
| 1908 | 33 | #676 | — | — |
| 1907 | 20 | #867 | — | — |
| 1906 | 38 | #576 | — | — |
| 1905 | 31 | #640 | — | — |
| 1904 | 34 | #584 | — | — |
| 1903 | 27 | #653 | — | — |
| 1902 | 26 | #666 | — | — |
| 1901 | 32 | #544 | — | — |
| 1900 | 49 | #488 | — | — |
| 1899 | 36 | #497 | — | — |
| 1898 | 46 | #457 | — | — |
| 1897 | 30 | #553 | — | — |
| 1896 | 38 | #475 | — | — |
| 1895 | 45 | #423 | — | — |
| 1894 | 38 | #456 | — | — |
| 1893 | 39 | #435 | — | — |
| 1892 | 49 | #384 | — | — |
| 1891 | 33 | #446 | — | — |
| 1890 | 37 | #423 | — | — |
| 1889 | 36 | #409 | — | — |
| 1888 | 39 | #391 | — | — |
| 1887 | 37 | #359 | — | — |
| 1886 | 29 | #405 | — | — |
| 1885 | 26 | #412 | — | — |
| 1884 | 34 | #339 | — | — |
| 1883 | 32 | #318 | — | — |
| 1882 | 25 | #358 | — | — |
| 1881 | 19 | #390 | — | — |
| 1880 | 19 | #386 | — | — |
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).