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Mena

#6,256 in 2025UnisexGirls' nameBoys' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Mena has been given to 1,678 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #6,256 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 65 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% girls, 10% boys all-time.

Babies named Mena, 2025

1 in 174,000

Mena over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
02040608018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Mena over time

In 2025, Mena went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

18802025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Mena: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mena means

Mena is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Mena is used in Atayal.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,517 girls were recorded with the name Mena between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 65 in 2008; its best national rank was #808 in 1880.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,004 in 2020 to #6,256 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #4,938 in 2015 to #6,256 in 2025.

In the United States, 161 boys were recorded with the name Mena between 1984 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 16 in 1988; its best national rank was #3,298 in 1988.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mena?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 174,000
19 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 84,600
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,256
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
120,943 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mena 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 120,943 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Menas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mena was born before 2003 — so the typical Mena is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
25.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
54.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,263
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Choose a decade

2000s — 25.6% of all recorded uses (389).

Is Mena 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
−351
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−252
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,318
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.68×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
29.2%
Peak was 2008 (65)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
27.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#808
1880

Spellings of Mena

Mena is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 15.4% against Mena's 0.03%.

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 Mena is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Mena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 563,513 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3North Carolina1 in —
  4. 4New York1 in —
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in —
  6. 6Texas1 in —

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. Mena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Mena is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Mena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 1,710,533 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New Jersey1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Mena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mena around the world

Where Mena 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
    1998–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Northern Ireland
    2016–2016
    #440
    in 2016
  • Ireland
    2006–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • France
    1934–2021
    #6,828
    in 2021
  • Canada
    2003–2021
    #3,354
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1946–2010
    #801
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,256
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 252
Best rank ever
#808
1880
Peak year
2008
65 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,517
Count in 2025
19

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,298
1988
Peak year
1988
16 that year
First recorded
1984
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
161
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mena

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

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Sibling names for Mena

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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