Zenna

#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births

Peak · girls
1890 · 5 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
529
since 1890

Zenna over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Zenna has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201963peak #1,338, 1890girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025#8,36212
2024#6,64217
2023#5,24824
2022#8,03213
2021#8,97811
2020#8,40612
2019#9,11211
2018#6,52118
2017#8,77612
2016#7,98814
2015#7,61315
2014#6,98717
2013#8,58013
2012#7,45616
2011#9,15012
2010#11,2469
2009#7,06618
2008#10,08411
2007#15,4916
2006#13,6067
2005#16,4625
2004#16,0995
2003#12,4087
2002
2001#8,19612
2000#13,1546
1999
1998#14,1225
1997#13,7245
1996
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1994#13,4305
1993
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1990#11,4096
1989
1988#10,3866
1987
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1985#10,6775
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1980#10,3925
1979
1978#9,7505
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1967#5,4577
1966
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1964#4,09611
1963#5,2967
1962
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1960#5,6966
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1943#4,6915
1942
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1931#4,3315
1930#3,3458
1929#4,5705
1928#3,7437
1927#2,69912
1926
1925
1924#3,6658
1923#4,3766
1922#3,15210
1921#4,4646
1920#4,9755
1919#3,8177
1918#3,5128
1917#3,7137
1916#3,2588
1915#2,9009
1914#3,6185
1913#2,8276
1912#2,9795
1911#2,4635
1910#2,3985
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1900#1,7236
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1890#1,3385
1889
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First appearance
1890

The first year at least five girls were named Zenna! It came in at #1,338, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1890–1899, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Zenna is popular in 1963

No state had 5 or more girls named Zenna in 1963, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Zenna
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 1,720 spots since 2024 (#6,642#8,362)
  • 44 spots since 2020 (#8,406#8,362)
  • 749 spots since 2015 (#7,613#8,362)
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1890
  • Peaked 1890 at #1,338 (5 births)
  • Births halved by 1891, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 38,075
  • Highest: 1 in 38,075 girls born in 1890 were named Zenna (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 2010s
  • 25.9% of all girls named Zenna (137) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1890s5#1,338 (1890)#1,338
1900s6#1,723 (1900)#1,723
1910s65#2,398 (1910)#3,149
1920s59#2,699 (1927)#3,956
1930s13#3,345 (1930)#3,838
1940s5#4,691 (1943)#4,691
1950s0
1960s31#4,096 (1964)#5,136
1970s5#9,750 (1978)#9,750
1980s16#10,386 (1988)#10,485
1990s21#11,409 (1990)#13,171
2000s77#7,066 (2009)#12,507
2010s137#6,521 (2018)#8,343
2020s89#5,248 (2023)#7,611

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Zenna in 1963

girls
#5,296
7 births · 1 in 275,358 girls

Top girls' names in 1963

  1. #1Lisa56,047
  2. #2Mary41,546
  3. #3Susan33,991
  4. #4Karen32,492
  5. #5Linda27,727
  6. #6Donna25,405
  7. #7Patricia25,374
  8. #8Lori23,899
  9. #9Sandra21,621
  10. #10Cynthia21,589
  11. #5,296Zenna7
More about 1963

girls

1,927,507 girls got a published name in 1963; 1 in 275,358 of them was named Zenna, which outranked 30.9% of the 7,661 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.1% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Zenna
  1. #4,896Yuvette8
  2. #4,896Zinda8
  3. #4,896Zonia8
  4. #5,296Zenna7
  5. #5,296Adam7
  6. #5,296Adine7
  7. #5,296Adra7
  8. #5,891Acquanetta6
  9. #5,891Adline6
  10. #5,891Adona6

Tied with 594 names at #5,296; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1962
Risers
  1. 631Zena#1,323#692
  2. 623Zina#992#369
  3. 540Trisha#1,020#480
  4. 457Shirl#1,304#847
  5. 396Glynis#992#596
Fallers
  1. 1,195Marnita#727#1,922
  2. 255Velvet#623#878
  3. 235Delphine#904#1,139
  4. 224Rosita#934#1,158
  5. 197Lindy#885#1,082

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1963