Djenaba
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Djenaba has been given to 29 babies in the U.S. since 1972. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1993, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Djenaba, 1993
1 in 314,000
Djenaba over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Djenaba?
Djenaba had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1993, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1993
- 1 in 314,000
- 12 of 3,768,729 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 151,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1993
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 217,691 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Djenaba sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1993 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 217,691 children born in 1993 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Djenaba. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Djenabas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Djenaba was born before 1973 — so the typical Djenaba is around 52 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 58.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 29
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 58.6% of all recorded uses (17).
Is Djenaba 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1993 (12)
- Years since peak
- 32
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 45.5% average annual change
Spellings of Djenaba
Djenaba is not the most common spelling — Jenaya is, with 97.2% against Djenaba's 2.8%.
- Jenaya97.2%1,006
- Djenaba2.8%29
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.
Djenaba around the world
Where Djenaba 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.
- France1977–2025#1,966in 2025
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Djenaba by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Djenaba
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Djenaba
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.