girls:
1.5k births since 1880
#4264 (25th percentile)
boys:
161 births since 1984
#4425 (3rd percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1880
#6109 (21st percentile)
The name Mena is the #6,109 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,637 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 21.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,264 (25.4% percentile) for all time with 1,476 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,425 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 161 births since 1984.
Mena has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1984 for boys). Birth data for Mena is available in 104 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (104 years for girls and 22 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 Mena has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 90.2% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mena reached its peak popularity in 2008, achieving the 6.1% percentile (ranked #924) with 31 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 61 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). Despite a low point in 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Mena ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 12.1% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mena reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 1.5% percentile (ranked #715) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mena".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Mena", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 12 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Mina" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Mina..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Mena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.3% confident that Mena is pronounced as MEE-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEH-nuh, at 21.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.
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