Mena — #5781 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Mena

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,498 babies named Mena between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mena currently holds the #5781 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 65 babies received it in a single year. Mena is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 161 additional births since 1984.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mena performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 389 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Mena shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 73 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Mena in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mena 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 1,498 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.