Senai
Senai was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,768 among girls’ names; 320 Americans have been recorded with it since 1990 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Senai by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Senai?
#11,768 among girls’ names, 2025
Senai rose from #14,267 in 2015 to #11,768 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 3.9 to 5.0 per million.
24 babies in 2017, the peak
Senai peaked in 2017, when 24 babies were given it (14 girls, #8,222 among girls’ names). The 8 births of 2025 are 33% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,768 | under 5 | |
| 2024 | 8 | #11,983 | 8 | #9,720 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,504 | under 5 | |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,450 | 8 | #9,686 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,443 | 6 | #11,900 |
| 2020 | under 5 | 8 | #9,413 | |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,265 | under 5 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,364 | 6 | #11,895 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,222 | 10 | #8,039 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 6 | #11,898 |
Every recorded year (26)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #14,267 | 10 | #7,940 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,318 | 9 | #8,669 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,961 | under 5 | |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,261 | 5 | #13,868 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,585 | 6 | #12,009 |
| 2010 | 10 | #11,112 | 13 | #6,638 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,284 | under 5 | |
| 2008 | under 5 | 6 | #12,299 | |
| 2007 | 12 | #10,035 | 9 | #8,800 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,645 | under 5 | |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,672 | 5 | #13,021 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,931 | 5 | #12,908 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,909 | 5 | #12,444 |
| 2002 | under 5 | 5 | #12,184 | |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,683 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | under 5 | 6 | #7,941 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Senai a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 320 Americans recorded as Senai, 58% are girls and 43% boys. In 2025 it went to 8 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 Senai: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Senai, and how old are they?
An estimated 317 Americans named Senai and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 19. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 351 people named Senai (140 women and girls, 211 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 239 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% above 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 8,394 babies since 1880, Senai is the sixth most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 212 babies (3.8%), 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 Senai
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 Senai and names like it
- Compare Senai and SenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sSenai peaked in 2017.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Senai since 1910.
- The top names of 2017The year the most babies were named Senai.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Senai alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.