Jena
Jena is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. Its best rank was 371st, in 1985.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1986619 births
- Best rank
- #371in 1985
- Since 1900
- 13,217people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,217 girls have been named Jena in the United States since 1900, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1986, with 619 births.
The name has all but left use: 17 births in 2024, against 619 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1988, and the 1980s alone account for 31%. It has spent 37 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jena | |
|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 6 | |
| 1920s | 39 | |
| 1930s | 31 | |
| 1940s | 96 | |
| 1950s | 378 | |
| 1960s | 1,069 | |
| 1970s | 1,753 | |
| 1980s | 4,075 | |
| 1990s | 3,301 | |
| 2000s | 1,772 | |
| 2010s | 562 | |
| 2020s | 130 |
In 1986, its biggest year
Jena was the 375th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1986 were Jessica, Ashley, Amanda, Jennifer and Sarah. See all of 1986.
Names that rose and fell with Jena
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Talisapeak 1989
- Krystynapeak 1990
- Laurinpeak 1990
- Deondrapeak 1985
- Sharellpeak 1986
- Chantalpeak 1990
- Stephanipeak 1989
- Jennaferpeak 1985
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.