Menna
Menna was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,625 among girls’ names; 223 Americans have been recorded with it since 1997 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Menna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Menna?
#10,625 among girls’ names, 2025
Menna rose from #13,990 in 2015 to #10,625 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.6 per million.
21 babies in 2022, the peak
Menna peaked in 2022, when 21 girls were given it, #5,904 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 43% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,625 | 5.6 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,875 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,398 | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 21 | #5,904 | 12.8 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,669 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,341 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,231 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,150 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 10 | #10,470 | 5.8 |
| 2016 | 16 | #7,493 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #13,990 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,942 | 8.4 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,771 | 4.6 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,970 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,071 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,428 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,401 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,487 | 4.2 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,073 | 4.7 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,413 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,175 | 5.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,036 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,958 | 4.0 |
| 1997 | 5 | #15,279 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Menna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Menna has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Menna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Menna, and how old are they?
An estimated 221 Americans named Menna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 6 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 334 people named Menna (322 women and girls, 12 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 162 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.1 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Menna?
Menna is a less common spelling of Mena: SSA has recorded 223 Menna and 1,678 Mena since 1880.
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 4,230 babies since 1880, Menna is the fourth most given (5.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 73 babies (12%), the third 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 Menna
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Menna and names like it
- Compare Menna and MenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMenna peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Menna since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Menna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Menna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.