Amena — #4679 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Amena

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,051 babies named Amena between 1968 and 2024, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Amena currently holds the #4679 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 44 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Amena performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 313 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Amena shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 46 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Amena in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Amena in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,051 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.