Mena
Mena is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 21 births. Its best rank was 808th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 210.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 200865 births
- Best rank
- #808in 1880
- Since 1880
- 1,659people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,498 girls have been named Mena in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2008, with 65 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 26%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 161 boys have also been given it, 9.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Mena | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 24 | |
| 1890s | 37 | |
| 1900s | 6 | |
| 1910s | 60 | |
| 1920s | 69 | |
| 1930s | 34 | |
| 1940s | 24 | |
| 1950s | 56 | |
| 1960s | 46 | |
| 1970s | 87 | |
| 1980s | 95 | |
| 1990s | 133 | |
| 2000s | 389 | |
| 2010s | 333 | |
| 2020s | 105 |
In 2008, its biggest year
Mena was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 2008 were Emma, Isabella, Emily, Olivia and Ava. See all of 2008.
Names that rose and fell with Mena
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Amaliepeak 2011
- Delilapeak 2008
- Roxypeak 2009
- Leilapeak 2010
- Rosypeak 2018
- Lilianpeak 2007
- Laniepeak 2006
- Carolinepeak 2000
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.