Jenna — #684 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Jenna

The Social Security Administration has registered 148,163 babies named Jenna between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jenna currently holds the #684 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 6,436 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jenna performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 45,854 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Jenna shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 14,106 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Jenna in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jenna 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 148,163 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.