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Menna

#10,625 in 2025Girls' name

Favour, grace

Menna has been given to 223 babies in the U.S. since 1997. In 2025 it ranked #10,625 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Menna, 2025

1 in 368,000

Menna over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Menna: meaning, origin, and history

Favour, grace

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Menna means

Menna means “favour, grace”.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 223 girls were recorded with the name Menna between 1997 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2022; its best national rank was #5,904 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,341 in 2020 to #10,625 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,990 in 2015 to #10,625 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 Menna?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 179,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#10,625
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Menna 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Menna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mennas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Menna was born before 2015 — so the typical Menna is around 10 today.

Median birth year
2015
About 10 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
40.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
94.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
223
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 40.8% of all recorded uses (91).

Is Menna 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
+6,250
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,284
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,365
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.29×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
42.9%
Peak was 2022 (21)
Years since peak
3
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,904
2022

Spellings of Menna

Menna is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 23.9% against Menna'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.

Where Menna is used

Across 1910–2025, Menna was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,619,038 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in —
  2. 2Virginia1 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. Menna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Menna around the world

Where Menna 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
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • France
    2014–2022
    #6,570
    in 2022
  • Canada
    2020–2021
    #2,930
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1960–1960
    #617
    in 1960

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

Menna by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#10,625
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,284
Best rank ever
#5,904
2022
Peak year
2022
21 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
223
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Menna

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

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Sibling names for Menna

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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