Girls' name · since 1977
Jillena
35 babies named Jillena in U.S. Social Security records since 1977, with the highest year being 1978. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 35
- total births
- 1977–1999
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 46%
- born in that decade
Jillena is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 35 have been recorded since 1977.
Jillena has 35 recorded births among girls since 1977, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1977 to 1999.
- 35 total births
- 1977–1999 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 46% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jillena's 35 recorded births place it above 46% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jillena's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Jillena's full recorded timeline at 1982, 43% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 57% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1982, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1978 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Jillena popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1977–1999
- Peak year (1978)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 23 years of records
Jillena by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Jillena's strongest decade.
16 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 46% of all-time use.
Jillena births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
14 births
- 1980s
1980s
16 births
- 1990s 5
1990s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 16 births (46% of all-time use).
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- Jillena's decade-level peak was the 1980s (16 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 1990s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1977–1999 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jillena: Baby Name Since 1977 - 35 Births, Peak 1978." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jillena. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jillena draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.