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Fenna

#9,051 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Fen

Fenna has been given to 132 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #9,051 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Fenna, 2025

1 in 301,000

Fenna over time, 1880–2025

Girls
05101518801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Fenna: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Fen

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Fenna means

Fenna is a feminine form of Fen.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Fen.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 132 girls were recorded with the name Fenna between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 13 in 2015; its best national rank was #8,175 in 2021.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,011 in 2020 to #9,051 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,614 in 2015 to #9,051 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 Fenna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 301,000
11 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 146,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,051
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
208,901 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Fenna 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 208,901 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Fenna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Fennas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Fenna was born before 2020 — so the typical Fenna is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
50.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
132
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 50.8% of all recorded uses (67).

Is Fenna 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
−435
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,960
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−437
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.85×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
84.6%
Peak was 2015 (13)
Years since peak
10
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#8,175
2021

Spellings of Fenna

Fenna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 25.3% against Fenna's <0.01%.

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.

Fenna around the world

Where Fenna 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
    1996–2025
    #1,229
    in 2025
  • France
    2025–2025
    #6,972
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2016–2024
    #2,104
    in 2024

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Fenna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,051
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,960
Best rank ever
#8,175
2021
Peak year
2015
13 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
132
Count in 2025
11

Names similar to Fenna

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

FendiFenixFenyxFenetMannaMennaAhnnaIonnaKannaNiannaZhannaOlennaMionnaInannaCionnaOhannaZiennaRinnaOlannaSyennaKiennaXiennaAiannaZeanna

Sibling names for Fenna

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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