Trena
Trena was last recorded in 2009, when 5 babies were given it; 5,160 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,420 Americans named Trena and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (86% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 51 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Trena by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Trena mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Trena is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Trena?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #19,995, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
255 babies in 1971, the peak
Trena peaked in 1971, when 255 girls were given it, #644 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 5 | #19,995 | under 0.01 |
| 2007 | 6 | #17,487 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 8 | #13,521 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,864 | 0.01 |
| 2004 | 5 | #18,630 | under 0.01 |
| 2002 | 8 | #12,119 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,792 | under 0.01 |
| 2000 | 10 | #9,825 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,815 | 0.01 |
| 1998 | 9 | #10,060 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 15 | #6,461 | 0.01 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,096 | 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,486 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,638 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,189 | 0.01 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,658 | under 0.01 |
| 1991 | 29 | #3,712 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,265 | 0.01 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,237 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,297 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,911 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 45 | #2,297 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,594 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 49 | #2,075 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,955 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 60 | #1,821 | 0.04 |
| 1981 | 62 | #1,808 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 83 | #1,472 | 0.05 |
| 1979 | 82 | #1,469 | 0.05 |
| 1978 | 104 | #1,211 | 0.07 |
| 1977 | 93 | #1,282 | 0.06 |
| 1976 | 116 | #1,065 | 0.08 |
| 1975 | 134 | #946 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 119 | #1,011 | 0.08 |
| 1973 | 153 | #846 | 0.10 |
| 1972 | 174 | #791 | 0.11 |
| 1971 | 255 | #644 | 0.15 |
| 1970 | 236 | #674 | 0.14 |
| 1969 | 222 | #668 | 0.13 |
| 1968 | 209 | #671 | 0.13 |
| 1967 | 174 | #747 | 0.11 |
| 1966 | 187 | #723 | 0.11 |
| 1965 | 186 | #731 | 0.11 |
| 1964 | 163 | #823 | 0.09 |
| 1963 | 149 | #859 | 0.08 |
| 1962 | 190 | #757 | 0.10 |
| 1961 | 159 | #839 | 0.08 |
| 1960 | 125 | #959 | 0.06 |
| 1959 | 121 | #961 | 0.06 |
| 1958 | 140 | #862 | 0.07 |
| 1957 | 113 | #978 | 0.06 |
| 1956 | 83 | #1,139 | 0.04 |
| 1955 | 102 | #993 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 46 | #1,502 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 48 | #1,421 | 0.03 |
| 1952 | 36 | #1,636 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 43 | #1,448 | 0.02 |
| 1950 | 46 | #1,362 | 0.03 |
| 1949 | 28 | #1,838 | 0.02 |
| 1948 | 39 | #1,493 | 0.02 |
| 1947 | 47 | #1,354 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 37 | #1,464 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 38 | #1,309 | 0.03 |
| 1944 | 44 | #1,201 | 0.03 |
| 1943 | 46 | #1,204 | 0.03 |
| 1942 | 37 | #1,347 | 0.03 |
| 1941 | 37 | #1,267 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,304 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,403 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,303 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,216 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,802 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,836 | under 0.01 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,907 | under 0.01 |
| 1925 | 7 | #4,390 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 6 | #5,003 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,979 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 13 | #2,754 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,687 | under 0.01 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,487 | under 0.01 |
| 1918 | 12 | #2,799 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,485 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,849 | 0.01 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,658 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Trena a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Trena has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 84 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Trena: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Trena, and how old are they?
4,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 86% of the 5,160 Americans ever recorded as Trena. The median Trena alive today is 57 years old; half are between 51 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 4,197 people named Trena (4,189 women and girls, 8 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,616 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 117 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,390 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 2,330 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 481 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 95 |
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 Trena born?
The states with the most babies named Trena are Texas, California and Ohio, with 35% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 373 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| California | 372 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 208 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 197 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Indiana | 170 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Tennessee | 138 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Michigan | 132 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 122 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Kentucky | 122 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| North Carolina | 122 | not ranked | 0.8× |
Where Trena is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Trena is most over-represented in Kentucky: since 1913 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Trena 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 9,414 babies since 1880, Trena is the most given (55% of them).
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 Trena
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 Trena and names like it
- Compare Trena and TerinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sTrena peaked in 1971.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Trena since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Trena.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Trena alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with TMost given first.