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Cienna

#1,598 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Cienna has been given to 3,093 babies in the U.S. since 1988. In 2025 it ranked #1,598 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 194 recorded.

Babies named Cienna, 2025

1 in 25,300

Cienna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05010015020018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Cienna: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Cienna means

Cienna is a given name.

The naming story behind Cienna

Wikidata records Cienna as a given name. The entity identifier is Q111327929, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,093 girls were recorded with the name Cienna between 1988 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 194 in 2006; its best national rank was #1,241 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,850 in 2020 to #1,598 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,281 in 2015 to #1,598 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Cienna?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 25,300
131 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 12,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#1,598
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
17,542 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Cienna sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5002%

Put another way: gather 17,542 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Cienna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ciennas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Cienna was born before 2010 — so the typical Cienna is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
37.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,093
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 37.0% of all recorded uses (1,143).

Is Cienna rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+318
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+252
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+683
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.60×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
67.5%
Peak was 2006 (194)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,241
2006

Spellings of Cienna

Cienna is not the most common spelling — Jenna is, with 23.7% against Cienna's 0.49%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Cienna is used

Across 2016–2025, Cienna was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 9,091 girls, against 1 in 16,035 across all states with data. It was least common in Michigan (1 in 100,000).

111 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 9,091
  2. 2Arizona1 in 10,000
  3. 3Pennsylvania1 in 11,111
  4. 4Ohio1 in 16,667
  5. 5Texas1 in 16,667
  6. 6Florida1 in 20,000
  7. 7New York1 in 20,000
  8. 8Minnesota1 in 33,333

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Cienna around the world

Where Cienna ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2002–2025
    #1,454
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2019–2024
    #790
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2022–2022
    #418
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1998–2024
    #3,027
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1988–2013
    #818
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Cienna in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Cienna. Linked forms have their own page here.

Sienna

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Cienna by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#1,598
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 252
Best rank ever
#1,241
2006
Peak year
2006
194 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,093
Count in 2025
131

Names similar to Cienna

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Cienna

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Cienna, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Cienna

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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