Zena
Zena is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 82 births. Its best rank was 560th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 820.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 1964222 births
- Best rank
- #560in 1883
- Since 1880
- 5,911people given the name
The story in the numbers
5,911 girls have been named Zena in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1964, with 222 births.
This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1971, and the 1960s alone account for 18%. It has spent 27 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Zena | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 77 | |
| 1890s | 133 | |
| 1900s | 155 | |
| 1910s | 347 | |
| 1920s | 432 | |
| 1930s | 229 | |
| 1940s | 207 | |
| 1950s | 283 | |
| 1960s | 1,041 | |
| 1970s | 343 | |
| 1980s | 509 | |
| 1990s | 735 | |
| 2000s | 411 | |
| 2010s | 584 | |
| 2020s | 425 |
In 1964, its biggest year
Zena was the 691st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1964 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1964.
Names that rose and fell with Zena
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Elizabethpeak 1990
- Ninapeak 1980
- Helenapeak 2024
- Magdalenapeak 2007
- Adelapeak 2015
- Susannapeak 1958
- Juliapeak 2001
- Sabinapeak 2005
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.