Ciena
Ciena was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,148 among girls’ names; 360 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ciena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ciena?
#11,148 among girls’ names, 2025
Ciena fell from #10,297 in 2015 to #11,148 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 5.6 to 5.0 per million.
27 babies in 2007, the peak
Ciena peaked in 2007, when 27 girls were given it, #5,267 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,148 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 7 | #12,434 | 4.3 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,403 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 5 | #15,817 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 24 | #5,262 | 14.6 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,422 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,622 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,004 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,545 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,297 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #8,580 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,149 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 8 | #12,459 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,289 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,359 | 7.9 |
| 2009 | 16 | #7,760 | 8.7 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,170 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 27 | #5,267 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,420 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,891 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,544 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,181 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,345 | 4.5 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,395 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,248 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,621 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,309 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,485 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 7 | #10,810 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 5 | #13,867 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #10,806 | 3.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Ciena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ciena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ciena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ciena, and how old are they?
An estimated 357 Americans named Ciena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 11 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 304 people named Ciena (301 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 300 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Ciena?
Ciena is a less common spelling of Sienna: SSA has recorded 360 Ciena and 39,887 Sienna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 78,732 babies since 1880, Ciena is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 3,298 babies (<1%), again the eighth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ciena
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ciena and names like it
- Compare Ciena and SiennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sCiena peaked in 2007.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ciena since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Ciena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Ciena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with CMost given first.