Jena — #6638 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Jena

The Social Security Administration has registered 13,217 babies named Jena between 1900 and 2024, spanning 125 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jena currently holds the #6638 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1986, when 619 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jena performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 4,075 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Jena shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,147 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Jena in 45 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jena 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 13,217 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.