Shenna
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Shenna has been given to 1,328 babies in the U.S. since 1948. 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 1984, with 179 recorded.
Babies named Shenna, 2000
1 in 756,000
Shenna over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Shenna?
Shenna had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2000, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2000
- 1 in 756,000
- 5 of 3,778,496 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 363,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2000
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 523,812 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Shenna sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2000 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 523,812 children born in 2000 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Shenna. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Shennas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Shenna was born before 1983 — so the typical Shenna is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 58.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 73.2%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,322
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 58.6% of all recorded uses (778).
Is Shenna 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1984 (179)
- Years since peak
- 41
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.6% average annual change
Spellings of Shenna
Shenna is not the most common spelling — Sheila is, with 25.7% against Shenna's 0.14%.
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 Shenna is used
Across 1910–2025, Shenna was most concentrated in Alabama — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 282,287 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Alabama1 in 100,000
- 2Arkansas1 in 100,000
- 3Georgia1 in 100,000
- 4Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 5North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 6South Carolina1 in 100,000
- 7Tennessee1 in 100,000
- 8Virginia1 in 100,000
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. Shenna has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Shenna around the world
Where Shenna 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.
- France1997–1997#4,365in 1997
- South Australia1962–1997#681in 1997
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Shenna by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Shenna
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Shenna
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.