Meaning not yet researched.
Zena: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 73 in 2025. Its best rank was #560 in 1883.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #560 in 1883; #2,457 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Zena in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,457 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1883, at #560.
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Zena: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 73 girls in 2025. Peak: #560 in 1883 · most girls in one year: 222 (1964).
In 2025, 73 US girls were named Zena, making it the 2,457th most common girls’ name of the year, down 176 places from #2,281 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 82 girls named Zena in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #560, reached in 1883. The most girls given the name in a single year was 222, in 1964. For comparison, it was #3,000 in 2015 and #2,184 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Zena in 145 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 7 babies. In all, 5,986 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,041 babies named Zena.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 795 US girls were named Zena; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 90. In 2025 that was about 1 in 22,017 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Zena ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,681 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Zina (5,073 babies since 1880), Xena (3,513 babies since 1880), Siena (11,070 babies since 1880) and Sena (3,326 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ceana, Zenaya and Zeanna are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Ceana (294), Zenaya (282), Zeanna (200), Zeyna (138), Zyona (127), Zynah (41), Zeana (32), Zenai (26), Zynae (24), Zenae (24), Zeenah (22), Ceona (22), and more.
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 Zena in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,681 | — |
| Florida | 8 | #1,683 | — |
| New York | 6 | #2,067 | #2,212 |
| California | 7 | #2,761 | #3,001 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,917 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 73 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 2024 | 82 | #2,281 | — | — |
| 2023 | 87 | #2,194 | — | — |
| 2022 | 90 | #2,141 | — | — |
| 2021 | 84 | #2,230 | — | — |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,195 | — | — |
| 2019 | 90 | #2,108 | — | — |
| 2018 | 74 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 2017 | 82 | #2,282 | — | — |
| 2016 | 50 | #3,279 | — | — |
| 2015 | 58 | #3,000 | — | — |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,463 | — | — |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,418 | — | — |
| 2011 | 40 | #3,838 | — | — |
| 2010 | 41 | #3,815 | — | — |
| 2009 | 33 | #4,570 | — | — |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,085 | — | — |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,720 | — | — |
| 2006 | 33 | #4,460 | — | — |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,316 | — | — |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,688 | — | — |
| 2003 | 40 | #3,589 | — | — |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,195 | — | — |
| 2001 | 46 | #3,090 | — | — |
| 2000 | 44 | #3,168 | — | — |
| 1999 | 78 | #2,017 | — | — |
| 1998 | 88 | #1,788 | — | — |
| 1997 | 104 | #1,561 | — | — |
| 1996 | 127 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,281 | — | — |
| 1994 | 71 | #1,997 | — | — |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,767 | — | — |
| 1992 | 52 | #2,487 | — | — |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,549 | — | — |
| 1990 | 63 | #2,100 | — | — |
| 1989 | 71 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 1988 | 33 | #3,094 | — | — |
| 1987 | 51 | #2,155 | — | — |
| 1986 | 44 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,832 | — | — |
| 1984 | 38 | #2,513 | — | — |
| 1983 | 47 | #2,134 | — | — |
| 1982 | 58 | #1,872 | — | — |
| 1981 | 54 | #1,984 | — | — |
| 1980 | 51 | #2,068 | — | — |
| 1979 | 24 | #3,440 | — | — |
| 1978 | 28 | #2,938 | — | — |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,266 | — | — |
| 1976 | 36 | #2,333 | — | — |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,968 | — | — |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,432 | — | — |
| 1973 | 39 | #2,093 | — | — |
| 1972 | 39 | #2,056 | — | — |
| 1971 | 45 | #1,936 | — | — |
| 1970 | 51 | #1,780 | — | — |
| 1969 | 43 | #1,926 | — | — |
| 1968 | 63 | #1,434 | — | — |
| 1967 | 69 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1966 | 104 | #1,016 | — | — |
| 1965 | 142 | #838 | — | — |
| 1964 | 222 | #691 | — | — |
| 1963 | 213 | #694 | — | — |
| 1962 | 70 | #1,331 | — | — |
| 1961 | 63 | #1,419 | — | — |
| 1960 | 52 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1959 | 39 | #1,793 | — | — |
| 1958 | 26 | #2,259 | — | — |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,704 | — | — |
| 1956 | 30 | #2,004 | — | — |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,107 | — | — |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,294 | — | — |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,299 | — | — |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,410 | — | — |
| 1951 | 34 | #1,664 | — | — |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,184 | — | — |
| 1949 | 18 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 1948 | 29 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 1947 | 21 | #2,198 | — | — |
| 1946 | 12 | #3,032 | — | — |
| 1945 | 14 | #2,457 | — | — |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,806 | — | — |
| 1943 | 15 | #2,445 | — | — |
| 1942 | 35 | #1,386 | — | — |
| 1941 | 21 | #1,808 | — | — |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,899 | — | — |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,415 | — | — |
| 1938 | 16 | #2,111 | — | — |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,100 | — | — |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,740 | — | — |
| 1935 | 21 | #1,719 | — | — |
| 1934 | 24 | #1,555 | — | — |
| 1933 | 35 | #1,223 | — | — |
| 1932 | 31 | #1,345 | — | — |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,500 | — | — |
| 1930 | 27 | #1,534 | — | — |
| 1929 | 43 | #1,136 | — | — |
| 1928 | 27 | #1,587 | — | — |
| 1927 | 36 | #1,361 | — | — |
| 1926 | 41 | #1,219 | — | — |
| 1925 | 48 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 1924 | 39 | #1,300 | — | — |
| 1923 | 48 | #1,110 | — | — |
| 1922 | 43 | #1,188 | — | — |
| 1921 | 62 | #945 | — | — |
| 1920 | 45 | #1,131 | — | — |
| 1919 | 31 | #1,422 | — | — |
| 1918 | 53 | #998 | — | — |
| 1917 | 37 | #1,204 | — | — |
| 1916 | 46 | #1,025 | — | — |
| 1915 | 40 | #1,074 | — | — |
| 1914 | 35 | #1,022 | — | — |
| 1913 | 31 | #980 | — | — |
| 1912 | 27 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 1911 | 26 | #852 | — | — |
| 1910 | 21 | #969 | — | — |
| 1909 | 21 | #908 | — | — |
| 1908 | 13 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1907 | 14 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1906 | 19 | #870 | — | — |
| 1905 | 21 | #824 | — | — |
| 1904 | 15 | #964 | — | — |
| 1903 | 8 | #1,438 | — | — |
| 1902 | 11 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1901 | 12 | #1,006 | — | — |
| 1900 | 21 | #832 | — | — |
| 1899 | 10 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1898 | 18 | #819 | — | — |
| 1897 | 16 | #825 | — | — |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1895 | 13 | #930 | — | — |
| 1894 | 14 | #848 | — | — |
| 1893 | 13 | #864 | — | — |
| 1892 | 16 | #761 | — | — |
| 1891 | 16 | #694 | — | — |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,095 | — | — |
| 1889 | 12 | #801 | — | — |
| 1888 | 8 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 1887 | 6 | #1,145 | — | — |
| 1886 | 8 | #895 | — | — |
| 1884 | 11 | #684 | — | — |
| 1883 | 13 | #560 | — | — |
| 1882 | 6 | #906 | — | — |
| 1881 | 6 | #827 | — | — |
| 1880 | 7 | #736 | — | — |
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).