Zena
#2,438 for girls in 2025, 73 births
- Peak · girls
- 1883 · 13 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,986since 1880
Zena over time
Rank among girls' names. Zena has never cracked the top 500 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,438 | 73 |
| 2024 | #2,265 | 82 |
| 2023 | #2,176 | 87 |
| 2022 | #2,123 | 90 |
| 2021 | #2,212 | 84 |
| 2020 | #2,170 | 83 |
| 2019 | #2,090 | 90 |
| 2018 | #2,419 | 74 |
| 2017 | #2,268 | 82 |
| 2016 | #3,229 | 50 |
| 2015 | #2,964 | 58 |
| 2014 | #3,005 | 56 |
| 2013 | #3,404 | 46 |
| 2012 | #3,364 | 48 |
| 2011 | #3,781 | 40 |
| 2010 | #3,745 | 41 |
| 2009 | #4,482 | 33 |
| 2008 | #4,006 | 39 |
| 2007 | #3,653 | 44 |
| 2006 | #4,358 | 33 |
| 2005 | #3,257 | 47 |
| 2004 | #3,631 | 40 |
| 2003 | #3,532 | 40 |
| 2002 | #3,146 | 45 |
| 2001 | #3,046 | 46 |
| 2000 | #3,121 | 44 |
| 1999 | #1,999 | 78 |
| 1998 | #1,774 | 88 |
| 1997 | #1,552 | 104 |
| 1996 | #1,337 | 127 |
| 1995 | #2,244 | 59 |
| 1994 | #1,972 | 71 |
| 1993 | #2,725 | 44 |
| 1992 | #2,459 | 52 |
| 1991 | #2,519 | 49 |
| 1990 | #2,081 | 63 |
| 1989 | #1,851 | 71 |
| 1988 | #3,039 | 33 |
| 1987 | #2,129 | 51 |
| 1986 | #2,300 | 44 |
| 1985 | #1,809 | 62 |
| 1984 | #2,470 | 38 |
| 1983 | #2,097 | 47 |
| 1982 | #1,850 | 58 |
| 1981 | #1,958 | 54 |
| 1980 | #2,043 | 51 |
| 1979 | #3,333 | 24 |
| 1978 | #2,859 | 28 |
| 1977 | #3,176 | 24 |
| 1976 | #2,292 | 36 |
| 1975 | #2,881 | 25 |
| 1974 | #2,396 | 32 |
| 1973 | #2,064 | 39 |
| 1972 | #2,022 | 39 |
| 1971 | #1,906 | 45 |
| 1970 | #1,755 | 51 |
| 1969 | #1,897 | 43 |
| 1968 | #1,418 | 63 |
| 1967 | #1,316 | 69 |
| 1966 | #1,011 | 104 |
| 1965 | #835 | 142 |
| 1964 | #689 | 222 |
| 1963 | #692 | 213 |
| 1962 | #1,323 | 70 |
| 1961 | #1,406 | 63 |
| 1960 | #1,542 | 52 |
| 1959 | #1,765 | 39 |
| 1958 | #2,209 | 26 |
| 1957 | #1,681 | 41 |
| 1956 | #1,968 | 30 |
| 1955 | #2,063 | 27 |
| 1954 | #2,240 | 23 |
| 1953 | #2,236 | 22 |
| 1952 | #2,327 | 20 |
| 1951 | #1,637 | 34 |
| 1950 | #2,121 | 21 |
| 1949 | #2,340 | 18 |
| 1948 | #1,739 | 29 |
| 1947 | #2,146 | 21 |
| 1946 | #2,880 | 12 |
| 1945 | #2,339 | 14 |
| 1944 | #1,742 | 23 |
| 1943 | #2,352 | 15 |
| 1942 | #1,367 | 35 |
| 1941 | #1,750 | 21 |
| 1940 | #1,845 | 19 |
| 1939 | #2,300 | 13 |
| 1938 | #2,021 | 16 |
| 1937 | #1,999 | 16 |
| 1936 | #1,691 | 20 |
| 1935 | #1,663 | 21 |
| 1934 | #1,518 | 24 |
| 1933 | #1,197 | 35 |
| 1932 | #1,320 | 31 |
| 1931 | #1,459 | 26 |
| 1930 | #1,499 | 27 |
| 1929 | #1,119 | 43 |
| 1928 | #1,541 | 27 |
| 1927 | #1,331 | 36 |
| 1926 | #1,198 | 41 |
| 1925 | #1,101 | 48 |
| 1924 | #1,279 | 39 |
| 1923 | #1,101 | 48 |
| 1922 | #1,168 | 43 |
| 1921 | #942 | 62 |
| 1920 | #1,119 | 45 |
| 1919 | #1,393 | 31 |
| 1918 | #989 | 53 |
| 1917 | #1,183 | 37 |
| 1916 | #1,013 | 46 |
| 1915 | #1,055 | 40 |
| 1914 | #1,003 | 35 |
| 1913 | #961 | 31 |
| 1912 | #978 | 27 |
| 1911 | #838 | 26 |
| 1910 | #941 | 21 |
| 1909 | #890 | 21 |
| 1908 | #1,135 | 13 |
| 1907 | #1,037 | 14 |
| 1906 | #845 | 19 |
| 1905 | #797 | 21 |
| 1904 | #938 | 15 |
| 1903 | #1,318 | 8 |
| 1902 | #1,075 | 11 |
| 1901 | #961 | 12 |
| 1900 | #803 | 21 |
| 1899 | #1,034 | 10 |
| 1898 | #790 | 18 |
| 1897 | #786 | 16 |
| 1896 | #1,122 | 9 |
| 1895 | #893 | 13 |
| 1894 | #812 | 14 |
| 1893 | #826 | 13 |
| 1892 | #726 | 16 |
| 1891 | #669 | 16 |
| 1890 | #1,006 | 8 |
| 1889 | #757 | 12 |
| 1888 | #959 | 8 |
| 1887 | #1,036 | 6 |
| 1886 | #828 | 8 |
| 1885 | — | |
| 1884 | #640 | 11 |
| 1883 | #536 | 13 |
| 1882 | #813 | 6 |
| 1881 | #740 | 6 |
| 1880 | #679 | 7 |
In the first year the SSA published name data, Zena was already there! It came in at #679, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1885, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Zena is popular in 2014
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Arizona#1,102 · 1 in 6,341
- Texas#2,567 · 1 in 23,825
- California#2,740 · 1 in 29,952
Best ever in a state: #305 in District of Columbia, 1963.
Show every state
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| Arizona | #1,102 | 5 | 1 in 6,341 |
| Texas | #2,567 | 7 | 1 in 23,825 |
| California | #2,740 | 7 | 1 in 29,952 |
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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 Zena
- 173 spots since 2024 (#2,265 → #2,438)
- 268 spots since 2020 (#2,170 → #2,438)
- 526 spots since 2015 (#2,964 → #2,438)
- Biggest jump: 631 spots in 1963 (#1,323 → #692)
- Biggest drop: 404 spots in 1919 (#989 → #1,393)
- Debuted 1880
- Peaked 1883 at #536 (13 births)
- Births halved by 1885, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 30 yrs · run 1880–1884
- Highest: 1 in 8,535 girls born in 1964 were named Zena (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 22,017 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #536 in 1883, was only 1 in 8,640 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 17.4% of all girls named Zena (1,041) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 77 | #536 (1883) | #776 |
| 1890s | 133 | #669 (1891) | #866 |
| 1900s | 155 | #797 (1905) | #980 |
| 1910s | 347 | #838 (1911) | #1,035 |
| 1920s | 432 | #942 (1921) | #1,190 |
| 1930s | 229 | #1,197 (1933) | #1,667 |
| 1940s | 207 | #1,367 (1942) | #2,050 |
| 1950s | 283 | #1,637 (1951) | #2,025 |
| 1960s | 1,041 | #689 (1964) | #1,213 |
| 1970s | 343 | #1,755 (1970) | #2,468 |
| 1980s | 509 | #1,809 (1985) | #2,155 |
| 1990s | 735 | #1,337 (1996) | #2,066 |
| 2000s | 411 | #3,046 (2001) | #3,623 |
| 2010s | 585 | #2,090 (2019) | #3,027 |
| 2020s | 499 | #2,123 (2022) | #2,231 |
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.
Zena in 2014
Top girls' names in 2014
More about 2014
girls
1,786,355 girls got a published name in 2014; 1 in 31,899 of them was named Zena, which outranked 84.4% of the 19,232 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #2,969Swara57
- #2,969Victory57
- #2,969Yuri57
- #3,005Zena56
- #3,005Ameliah56
- #3,005Amilya56
- #3,005Angeli56
- #3,041Addysen55
- #3,041Aicha55
- #3,041Aliyanna55
Tied with 35 names at #3,005; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↑ 3,632Aranza#4,243 → #611
- ↑ 576Montserrat#1,148 → #572
- ↑ 573Monserrat#1,165 → #592
- ↑ 463Maisie#1,116 → #653
- ↑ 419Ariadne#1,220 → #801
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.