Mena
Mena was given to 19 girls in 2025, #6,256 among girls’ names; 1,678 Americans have been recorded with it since 1880 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,400 Americans named Mena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (84% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 13 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mena?
#6,256 among girls’ names, 2025
Mena fell from #4,938 in 2015 to #6,256 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 15.7 to 11.8 per million.
72 babies in 2008, the peak
Mena peaked in 2008, when 72 babies were given it (65 girls, #2,794 among girls’ names). The 19 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,256 | 11.8 |
| 2024 | 21 | #5,905 | 13.0 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,336 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,259 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,043 | 15.8 |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,004 | 12.4 |
| 2019 | 29 | #4,736 | 17.3 |
| 2018 | 32 | #4,419 | 18.8 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,996 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 28 | #4,942 | 15.8 |
Every recorded year (106)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 28 | #4,938 | 15.7 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,827 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 45 | #3,504 | 25.6 |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,673 | 17.6 |
| 2011 | 38 | #3,980 | 21.6 |
| 2010 | 45 | #3,555 | 25.3 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,280 | 27.8 |
| 2008 | 65 | #2,794 | 34.4 |
| 2007 | 46 | #3,577 | 23.9 |
| 2006 | 38 | #3,969 | 20.0 |
| 2005 | 44 | #3,443 | 23.8 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,896 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,000 | 18.6 |
| 2002 | 35 | #3,777 | 19.5 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,114 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 26 | #4,617 | 14.3 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,039 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,888 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,585 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,966 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,495 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 15 | #6,202 | 8.4 |
| 1993 | 18 | #5,356 | 9.9 |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,227 | 4.9 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,910 | 4.3 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,956 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,826 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 14 | #5,791 | 7.9 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,144 | 5.8 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,216 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 9 | #7,346 | 5.2 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,778 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,645 | 4.2 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,682 | 5.9 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,639 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,601 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 8 | #7,759 | 5.0 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,210 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,210 | 3.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,398 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,651 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 11 | #5,224 | 7.5 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,083 | 7.5 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,767 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,367 | 6.0 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,289 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,222 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,772 | 3.0 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,486 | 3.0 |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,307 | 3.5 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,143 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,347 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,223 | 2.5 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,156 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,960 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,572 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,633 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,533 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 7 | #4,884 | 3.7 |
| 1952 | 8 | #4,365 | 4.3 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,954 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,099 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,063 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,847 | 2.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,131 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,452 | 6.6 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,643 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,758 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,247 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 7 | #3,738 | 6.6 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,241 | 8.0 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,635 | 5.0 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,825 | 10.1 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,521 | 4.1 |
| 1923 | 10 | #3,283 | 8.3 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,904 | 10.0 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,885 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,837 | 10.0 |
| 1919 | 9 | #3,377 | 8.0 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,953 | 9.5 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,273 | 8.3 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,835 | 10.2 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,793 | 10.5 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,855 | 10.8 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,068 | 17.7 |
| 1905 | 6 | #1,847 | 20.6 |
| 1899 | 5 | #1,761 | 21.5 |
| 1898 | 6 | #1,632 | 23.2 |
| 1893 | 5 | #1,583 | 23.5 |
| 1892 | 7 | #1,234 | 33.0 |
| 1891 | 6 | #1,294 | 32.3 |
| 1890 | 8 | #1,067 | 42.0 |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,414 | 28.0 |
| 1887 | 8 | #917 | 54.8 |
| 1886 | 5 | #1,221 | 34.6 |
| 1880 | 6 | #808 | 65.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,678 Americans recorded as Mena, 90% are girls and 10% boys. In 2025 it went to 19 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mena, and how old are they?
1,400 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 84% of the 1,678 Americans ever recorded as Mena. The median Mena alive today is 20 years old; half are between 13 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 2,554 people named Mena (1,676 women and girls, 878 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,310 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 11 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 65 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 117 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 240 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 601 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 368 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 3,557 babies since 1880, Mena is the most given (47% of them). In 2025 it was given to 19 of their 73 babies (26%), the second most given that year.
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 Mena
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1880-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Amalie | 1,461 |
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 Mena and names like it
- Compare Mena and MeenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMena peaked in 2008.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mena since 1910.
- The top names of 2008The year the most babies were named Mena.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mena alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.