Mena

Where Mena comes from

Mena hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1867
    Mena Cleary born
    Canadian-born American actress and singer
  2. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #738 among girls with 6 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  3. 1881
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1979
    Mena Suvari born
    American actress, fashion designer, model
  5. 1991
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Mena Suvari · American actress, fashion designer, model, born 1979
  • Mena Cleary · Canadian-born American actress and singer, 1867–1929

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.