Tena — girls' name

What the Data Says About Tena

The Social Security Administration has registered 8,180 babies named Tena between 1880 and 2023, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Tena currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1962, when 345 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Tena performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 2,481 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Tena shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 406 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Illinois and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Tena in 33 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Tena 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 8,180 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.