girls:
13.2k births since 1900
#1352 (76th percentile)
boys:
7 births since 1988
#4579 (0th percentile)
overall:
13.2k births since 1900
#2284 (70th percentile)
The name Jena is the #2,284 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,206 recorded births since 1900. This represents the 70.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,352 (76.4% percentile) for all time with 13,199 births since 1900. For boys, it ranks #4,579 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 7 births since 1988.
Jena first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1900 (1900 for girls and 1988 for boys). Birth data for Jena is available in 96 out of the 124 years between 1900 and 2023 (96 years for girls and 1 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Jena has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jena reached its peak popularity in 1985, achieving the 57.2% percentile (ranked #343) with 333 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 335 births per million (ranked 56.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 1988, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jena ranks #928 for girls (2.0% percentile) with 14 births per million, which is 4.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jena reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 0.3% percentile (ranked #724) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1988.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jena".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.0% confident that Jena is pronounced as JEE-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-nuh, at 32.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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