girls:
3k births since 1880
#3162 (45th percentile)
boys:
186 births since 1984
#4400 (4th percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1880
#4812 (38th percentile)
The name Sena is the #4,812 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,203 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 37.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,162 (44.7% percentile) for all time with 3,017 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #4,400 (4.0% percentile) for all time with 186 births since 1984.
Sena has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1984 for boys).
The name Sena has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 94.2% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 85.9% of babies named Sena were girls.
For girls, Sena reached its peak popularity in 1888, achieving the 9.2% percentile (ranked #258) with 164 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 189 births per million (ranked 8.9% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Sena ranks #891 for girls (5.9% percentile) with 35 births per million, which is 18.5% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Sena reached its peak popularity in 2011, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #872) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 2011, with 7 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Sena ranks #906 for boys (0.5% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 79.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Sena".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Sena. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.1% confident that Sena is pronounced as SEH-nuh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is SEE-nuh, at 40.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like S EH1 N AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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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