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Morena

Girls' name

Feminine form of Moreno

Morena has been given to 287 babies in the U.S. since 1957. 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 1997, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Morena, 2024

1 in 669,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Morena: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Moreno

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Morena means

Morena is a feminine form of Moreno.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Morena is used in Italian and Spanish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mo.ˈɾe.na/ for Morena.

Origin, language, and formation

Morena is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Moreno.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Morena is pronounced /moˈɾena/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 287 girls were recorded with the name Morena between 1957 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1997; its best national rank was #5,396 in 1959.

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 Morena?

Morena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Morena 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 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Morena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Morenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Morena was born before 1997 — so the typical Morena is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
33.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.5%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
287
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 33.1% of all recorded uses (95).

Is Morena 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1997 (17)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
28.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,396
1959

Spellings of Morena

Morena is not the most common spelling — Serena is, with 9.6% against Morena's 0.06%.

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 Morena is used

Across 1910–2025, Morena was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 762,513 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Morena has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Morena around the world

Where Morena 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
    2013–2021
    #5,581
    in 2021
  • France
    1915–2021
    #3,674
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1962–1967
    #650
    in 1967

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

Morena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#5,396
1959
Peak year
1997
17 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
287
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Morena

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

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Sibling names for Morena

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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