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Senta

Girls' name

Belonging to Zeus, through Зи́на

Senta has been given to 315 babies in the U.S. since 1964. 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 1969, with 54 recorded.

Babies named Senta, 1986

1 in 593,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Senta: meaning, origin, and history

Belonging to Zeus, through Зи́на

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Senta means

Senta belongs to the name family reached through Senta → Зи́на. Its meaning is “belonging to Zeus”.

Origin, language, and formation

Senta is used in Estonian and German.

Senta comes through Russian Зи́на.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Зинаи́да and Зи́на.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 315 girls were recorded with the name Senta between 1964 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 54 in 1969; its best national rank was #1,645 in 1969.

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 Senta?

Senta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1986, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1986
1 in 593,000
6 of 3,556,724 births
Among girls only
1 in 286,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1986
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
410,890 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Senta 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 1986 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 410,890 children born in 1986 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Senta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Sentas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Senta was born before 1970 — so the typical Senta is around 55 today.

Median birth year
1970
About 55 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
49.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
315
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 49.5% of all recorded uses (156).

Is Senta 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1969 (54)
Years since peak
56
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,645
1969

Spellings of Senta

Senta is not the most common spelling — Jenna is, with 14.8% against Senta'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 Senta is used

Across 1910–2025, Senta was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,039,918 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Louisiana1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Senta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Senta around the world

Where Senta 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.

  • South Australia
    1967–1967
    #650
    in 1967

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Senta 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,645
1969
Peak year
1969
54 that year
First recorded
1964
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
315
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Senta

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

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Sibling names for Senta

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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