Tena

Where Tena comes from

Tena hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #375 among girls — 19 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1883
    Peak, #314
    32 babies named Tena — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1936
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,153.
  4. 1977
    Tena Štivičić born
    Croatian playwright
  5. 1995
    Tena Lukas born
    Croatian tennis player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Tena Lukas · Croatian tennis player, born 1995
  • Tena Štivičić · Croatian playwright, born 1977
  • Tena Nemet Brankov · Croatian theater, film and television actress, born 1994

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.