Hena
Hena was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,400 among girls’ names; 353 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Hena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Hena?
#10,400 among girls’ names, 2025
Hena rose from #13,522 in 2015 to #10,400 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.6 per million.
15 babies in 1999, the peak
Hena peaked in 1999, when 15 girls were given it, #6,617 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,400 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 9 | #10,573 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,862 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,222 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,828 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,576 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,951 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,080 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,220 | 4.1 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,522 | 3.9 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 10 | #10,719 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,014 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,228 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,153 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,129 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,809 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,180 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,816 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 14 | #7,723 | 7.7 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,529 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,451 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,208 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,617 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,570 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,000 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 13 | #6,865 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,299 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,086 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 8 | #9,903 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,788 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,725 | 6.9 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,567 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,075 | 3.8 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,122 | 4.0 |
| 1986 | 6 | #9,967 | 3.5 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,454 | 4.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,043 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Hena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Hena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Hena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Hena, and how old are they?
An estimated 348 Americans named Hena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 11 and 31. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 775 people named Hena (764 women and girls, 11 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 292 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 3,194 babies since 1880, Hena is the third most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 111 babies (8.1%), again the third 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 Hena
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 Hena and names like it
- Compare Hena and HennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sHena peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Hena since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Hena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Hena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with HMost given first.