Mena

Where Mena comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Mena.

  • Vowel-ended
Mena through the years
  1. 1867
    Mena Cleary born
    Canadian-born American actress and singer
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #738 among girls with 6 babies in the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1979
    Mena Suvari born
    American actress, fashion designer, model
  5. 1991
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name. From this year on, more girls have.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Mena Suvari · American actress, fashion designer, model, born 1979
  • Mena Cleary · Canadian-born American actress and singer, 1867–1929

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.