girls:
880 births since 1944
#4836 (15th percentile)
boys:
80 births since 2000
#4506 (2nd percentile)
overall:
960 births since 1944
#6779 (12th percentile)
The name Senna is the #6,779 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 960 recorded births since 1944. This represents the 12.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 12.4% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,836 (15.4% percentile) for all time with 880 births since 1944. For boys, it ranks #4,506 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 80 births since 2000.
Senna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1944 (1944 for girls and 2000 for boys). Birth data for Senna is available in 40 out of the 80 years between 1944 and 2023 (40 years for girls and 11 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 Senna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 91.7% of all recorded births being female. In 2023, 94.5% of babies named Senna were girls.
For girls, Senna reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 10.5% percentile (ranked #848) with 59 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 59 births per million (ranked 10.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Senna is at or near its peak popularity for girls, ranked #848 (10.5% percentile) with 59 births per million.
For boys, Senna reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.8% percentile (ranked #917) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2015, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Senna ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 51.1% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Senna".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Senna is pronounced as SEH-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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