Senna
Senna is given to both girls and boys: 116 girls and 14 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,757 among girls’ names and #6,390 among boys’, #2,970 among all names counting both); 1,205 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,190 Americans named Senna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 7 years old and half are between 3 and 16.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Senna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Senna?
#1,757 among girls’ names, 2025
Senna rose from #3,907 in 2015 to #1,757 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 21.8 to 72.2 per million.
130 babies in 2025, the peak
Senna peaked in 2025, when 130 babies were given it (116 girls, #1,757 among girls’ names). In 2024 it went to 99 girls.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 116 | #1,757 | 72.2 |
| 2024 | 99 | #1,993 | 61.1 |
| 2023 | 106 | #1,889 | 66.1 |
| 2022 | 93 | #2,083 | 56.7 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,814 | 37.2 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,065 | 21.7 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,884 | 16.7 |
| 2018 | 43 | #3,607 | 25.3 |
| 2017 | 44 | #3,543 | 25.5 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,264 | 14.7 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,907 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 40 | #3,836 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 24 | #5,620 | 13.7 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,380 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,070 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,588 | 11.3 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,270 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,317 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,052 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 15 | #8,168 | 7.9 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,767 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 19 | #6,448 | 10.3 |
| 2003 | 17 | #6,830 | 9.3 |
| 2002 | 16 | #6,983 | 8.9 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,964 | 5.6 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,088 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,420 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 8 | #10,943 | 4.5 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,894 | 5.7 |
| 1996 | 9 | #9,426 | 5.1 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,557 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,532 | 3.9 |
| 1992 | 6 | #13,024 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,786 | 3.2 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,441 | 2.8 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,777 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,907 | 3.0 |
| 1978 | 5 | #11,099 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,262 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,417 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,329 | 2.8 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,137 | 3.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Senna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,205 Americans recorded as Senna, 91% are girls and 9% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Senna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Senna, and how old are they?
1,190 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,205 Americans ever recorded as Senna. The median Senna alive today is 7 years old; half are between 3 and 16.
The 2020 Census counted 756 people named Senna (666 women and girls, 90 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 639 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 18 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 56 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 276 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 839 |
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).
Where are babies named Senna born?
The states with the most babies named Senna are California, Florida and Utah, with 70% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 21 | #1,472 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 10 | #1,417 | 0.5× |
| Utah | 8 | #533 | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 7 | #1,045 | 0.5× |
| New York | 5 | #2,378 | 0.3× |
| Pennsylvania | 5 | #1,592 | 0.4× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Senna with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 10,623 babies since 1880, Senna is the fourth most given (11% of them). In 2025 it was given to 130 of their 236 babies (55%), the 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 Senna
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 Senna and names like it
- Compare Senna and SenaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sSenna peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Senna since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Senna.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Senna alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with SMost given first.