girls:
4.9k births since 1880
#2430 (57th percentile)
overall:
4.9k births since 1880
#3902 (50th percentile)
The name Nena is the #3,902 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,885 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 49.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 49.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,430 (57.5% percentile) for all time with 4,885 births since 1880.
Nena has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 Birth data for Nena is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023. 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.
For girls, Nena reached its peak popularity in 1963, achieving the 13.9% percentile (ranked #665) with 56 births per million. The name was most common in 1880, with 82 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2006, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Nena ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 8.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Nena".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Nena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 35.9% confident that Nena is pronounced as NEE-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is NEH-nuh, at 35.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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