Zenna

#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births

Peak · girls
1890 · 5 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
529
since 1890

Zenna over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zenna has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201916peak #1,338, 1890girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#8,36212
2024#6,64217
2023#5,24824
2022#8,03213
2021#8,97811
2020#8,40612
2019#9,11211
2018#6,52118
2017#8,77612
2016#7,98814
2015#7,61315
2014#6,98717
2013#8,58013
2012#7,45616
2011#9,15012
2010#11,2469
2009#7,06618
2008#10,08411
2007#15,4916
2006#13,6067
2005#16,4625
2004#16,0995
2003#12,4087
2002—
2001#8,19612
2000#13,1546
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1998#14,1225
1997#13,7245
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1994#13,4305
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1990#11,4096
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1988#10,3866
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1985#10,6775
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1980#10,3925
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1978#9,7505
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1967#5,4577
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1964#4,09611
1963#5,2967
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1943#4,6915
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1931#4,3315
1930#3,3458
1929#4,5705
1928#3,7437
1927#2,69912
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1924#3,6658
1923#4,3766
1922#3,15210
1921#4,4646
1920#4,9755
1919#3,8177
1918#3,5128
1917#3,7137
1916#3,2588
1915#2,9009
1914#3,6185
1913#2,8276
1912#2,9795
1911#2,4635
1910#2,3985
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1900#1,7236
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1890#1,3385
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First appearance
1890

The first year at least five girls were named Zenna! It came in at #1,338, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1890–1899, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Zenna is popular in 1916

No state had 5 or more girls named Zenna in 1916, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zenna
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 1,720 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #8,362)
  • 44 spots since 2020 (#8,406 → #8,362)
  • 749 spots since 2015 (#7,613 → #8,362)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1890
  • Peaked 1890 at #1,338 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1891, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 38,075
  • Highest: 1 in 38,075 girls born in 1890 were named Zenna (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 25.9% of all girls named Zenna (137) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s5#1,338 (1890)#1,338
1900s6#1,723 (1900)#1,723
1910s65#2,398 (1910)#3,149
1920s59#2,699 (1927)#3,956
1930s13#3,345 (1930)#3,838
1940s5#4,691 (1943)#4,691
1950s0——
1960s31#4,096 (1964)#5,136
1970s5#9,750 (1978)#9,750
1980s16#10,386 (1988)#10,485
1990s21#11,409 (1990)#13,171
2000s77#7,066 (2009)#12,507
2010s137#6,521 (2018)#8,343
2020s89#5,248 (2023)#7,611

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.

Zenna in 1916

girls
#3,258
8 births · 1 in 130,542 girls

Top girls' names in 1916

  1. #1Mary61,438
  2. #2Helen32,661
  3. #3Dorothy27,418
  4. #4Margaret24,953
  5. #5Ruth23,189
  6. #6Mildred15,633
  7. #7Anna15,228
  8. #8Elizabeth14,940
  9. #9Frances13,746
  10. #10Virginia12,487
  11. #3,258Zenna8
More about 1916

girls

1,044,334 girls got a published name in 1916; 1 in 130,542 of them was named Zenna, which outranked 36.9% of the 5,161 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zenna
  1. #3,031Zeda9
  2. #3,031Zillah9
  3. #3,031Zulema9
  4. #3,258Zenna8
  5. #3,258Adabelle8
  6. #3,258Adina8
  7. #3,258Adine8
  8. #3,552Adelyne7
  9. #3,552Adie7
  10. #3,552Adora7

Tied with 293 names at #3,258; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1915
Risers
  1. ↑ 567Trinidad#1,317 → #750
  2. ↑ 388Coral#1,367 → #979
  3. ↑ 377Coletta#1,317 → #940
  4. ↑ 370Clifford#1,285 → #915
  5. ↑ 327Maida#1,231 → #904
Fallers
  1. ↓ 364Louis#934 → #1,298
  2. ↓ 354Herminia#944 → #1,298
  3. ↓ 346Gertha#900 → #1,246
  4. ↓ 344Lahoma#934 → #1,278
  5. ↓ 310Hassie#900 → #1,210

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1916 →