Jena
#5,410 for girls in 2025, 23 births · Last seen for boys in 1988 at #5,751
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1985 · 614 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 13,241since 1900
Jena over time
Rank among girls' names. Jena has never cracked the top 300 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,410 | 23 | — | |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 | — | |
| 2023 | #5,248 | 24 | — | |
| 2022 | #5,172 | 25 | — | |
| 2021 | #4,090 | 35 | — | |
| 2020 | #4,548 | 29 | — | |
| 2019 | #3,923 | 37 | — | |
| 2018 | #3,789 | 39 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,769 | 40 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,157 | 35 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,059 | 55 | — | |
| 2014 | #3,112 | 53 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,123 | 52 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,315 | 81 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,638 | 67 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,928 | 104 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,989 | 104 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,854 | 115 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,848 | 114 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,390 | 163 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,290 | 173 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,086 | 211 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,126 | 195 | — | |
| 2002 | #971 | 228 | — | |
| 2001 | #900 | 252 | — | |
| 2000 | #975 | 217 | — | |
| 1999 | #818 | 265 | — | |
| 1998 | #878 | 240 | — | |
| 1997 | #775 | 270 | — | |
| 1996 | #705 | 302 | — | |
| 1995 | #702 | 299 | — | |
| 1994 | #658 | 325 | — | |
| 1993 | #608 | 377 | — | |
| 1992 | #547 | 429 | — | |
| 1991 | #596 | 377 | — | |
| 1990 | #563 | 417 | — | |
| 1989 | #500 | 470 | — | |
| 1988 | #452 | 498 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #395 | 582 | — | |
| 1986 | #375 | 619 | — | |
| 1985 | #371 | 614 | — | |
| 1984 | #427 | 492 | — | |
| 1983 | #860 | 177 | — | |
| 1982 | #865 | 178 | — | |
| 1981 | #700 | 240 | — | |
| 1980 | #796 | 205 | — | |
| 1979 | #851 | 183 | — | |
| 1978 | #805 | 186 | — | |
| 1977 | #784 | 192 | — | |
| 1976 | #818 | 170 | — | |
| 1975 | #707 | 210 | — | |
| 1974 | #787 | 173 | — | |
| 1973 | #688 | 217 | — | |
| 1972 | #912 | 136 | — | |
| 1971 | #903 | 146 | — | |
| 1970 | #920 | 140 | — | |
| 1969 | #1,032 | 112 | — | |
| 1968 | #920 | 126 | — | |
| 1967 | #1,081 | 93 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,042 | 100 | — | |
| 1965 | #989 | 110 | — | |
| 1964 | #964 | 120 | — | |
| 1963 | #892 | 139 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,024 | 110 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,162 | 90 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,328 | 69 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,478 | 53 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,379 | 59 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,550 | 48 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,548 | 47 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,597 | 41 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,801 | 33 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,017 | 26 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,746 | 32 | — | |
| 1951 | #2,245 | 20 | — | |
| 1950 | #2,253 | 19 | — | |
| 1949 | #2,726 | 14 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,589 | 15 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,822 | 28 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,417 | 6 | — | |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 | — | |
| 1944 | #3,687 | 7 | — | |
| 1943 | #3,249 | 9 | — | |
| 1942 | #4,622 | 5 | — | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | #3,863 | 6 | — | |
| 1939 | #3,782 | 6 | — | |
| 1938 | — | — | ||
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #3,701 | 6 | — | |
| 1935 | — | — | ||
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| 1933 | #2,868 | 9 | — | |
| 1932 | #4,411 | 5 | — | |
| 1931 | — | — | ||
| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 | — | |
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| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 | — | |
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | #5,061 | 5 | — | |
| 1923 | #3,350 | 9 | — | |
| 1922 | — | — | ||
| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | — | |
| 1920 | #4,398 | 6 | — | |
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| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 | — | |
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| 1900 | #1,932 | 5 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Jena! It came in at #1,932, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1900–1916, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Jena is popular in 1978
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Iowa#372 · 1 in 3,098
- Louisiana#443 · 1 in 2,752
- Indiana#466 · 1 in 3,866
- Maryland#490 · 1 in 3,651
- Tennessee#547 · 1 in 4,644
Best ever in a state: #119 in Wyoming, 1985.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Iowa | #372 | 6 | 1 in 3,098 |
| Louisiana | #443 | 10 | 1 in 2,752 |
| Indiana | #466 | 9 | 1 in 3,866 |
| Maryland | #490 | 5 | 1 in 3,651 |
| Tennessee | #547 | 6 | 1 in 4,644 |
| Florida | #607 | 10 | 1 in 4,402 |
| Pennsylvania | #612 | 11 | 1 in 6,000 |
| North Carolina | #721 | 5 | 1 in 6,474 |
| California | #744 | 25 | 1 in 6,133 |
| Texas | #751 | 17 | 1 in 6,082 |
| Illinois | #767 | 10 | 1 in 7,090 |
| Michigan | #853 | 6 | 1 in 9,592 |
| New York | #891 | 12 | 1 in 8,194 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jena
- 1,232 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #5,410)
- 862 spots since 2020 (#4,548 → #5,410)
- 2,351 spots since 2015 (#3,059 → #5,410)
- Biggest jump: 433 spots in 1984 (#860 → #427)
- Biggest drop: 165 spots in 1982 (#700 → #865)
- Debuted 1900
- Peaked 1985 at #371 (614 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 10 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 37 yrs · run 1970–2002
- Highest: 1 in 2,771 girls born in 1986 were named Jena (0.04%)
- Latest: 1 in 69,881 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #371 in 1985, was only 1 in 2,803 (0.04%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 30.8% of all girls named Jena (4,075) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1900s | 5 | #1,932 (1900) | #1,932 |
| 1910s | 6 | #4,083 (1917) | #4,083 |
| 1920s | 39 | #3,350 (1923) | #4,293 |
| 1930s | 31 | #2,868 (1933) | #3,862 |
| 1940s | 96 | #1,822 (1947) | #3,444 |
| 1950s | 378 | #1,379 (1958) | #1,761 |
| 1960s | 1,069 | #892 (1963) | #1,043 |
| 1970s | 1,753 | #688 (1973) | #818 |
| 1980s | 4,075 | #371 (1985) | #574 |
| 1990s | 3,301 | #547 (1992) | #685 |
| 2000s | 1,772 | #900 (2001) | #1,343 |
| 2010s | 563 | #1,928 (2010) | #3,181 |
| 2020s | 153 | #4,090 (2021) | #5,185 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jena in 1978
Top girls' names in 1978
More about 1978
girls
1,531,859 girls got a published name in 1978; 1 in 8,236 of them was named Jena, which outranked 93.0% of the 11,475 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).