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Tena

#17,027 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Terezija

Tena has been given to 8,186 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #17,027 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1962, with 345 recorded.

Babies named Tena, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Tena: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Terezija

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Tena means

Tena is a diminutive of Terezija.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Tena is used in Croatian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈte.na/ for Tena.

Origin, language, and formation

Tena is used in Serbo-Croatian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Terezija.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Tena is pronounced /tena/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 8,186 girls were recorded with the name Tena between 1880 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 345 in 1962; its best national rank was #318 in 1883.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #11,001 in 2020 to #17,027 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Tena?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 663,000
5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#17,027
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Tena 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Tena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Tenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Tena was born before 1959 — so the typical Tena is around 66 today.

Median birth year
1959
About 66 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,682
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Choose a decade

1960s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (2,482).

Is Tena 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
−6,026
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
1.4%
Peak was 1962 (345)
Years since peak
63
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
37.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#318
1883

Spellings of Tena

Tena is not the most common spelling — Anna is, with 16.8% against Tena's 0.15%.

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 Tena is used

Across 1910–2025, Tena was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in 11,111 girls, against 1 in 35,961 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

09 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arkansas1 in 11,111
  2. 2Kentucky1 in 14,286
  3. 3Tennessee1 in 14,286
  4. 4Iowa1 in 16,667
  5. 5Missouri1 in 16,667
  6. 6West Virginia1 in 16,667
  7. 7Indiana1 in 20,000
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 20,000

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

Tena around the world

Where Tena 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.

  • Ireland
    2020–2020
    #834
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1960–1960
    #617
    in 1960

Popularity data from Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Tena

People whose public names include Tena, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Tena in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Tena. Linked forms have their own page here.

EnaTinaAtenaTeenaTrena

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Tena by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#17,027
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 6,026
Best rank ever
#318
1883
Peak year
1962
345 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
8,186
Count in 2025
5

Names similar to Tena

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

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Names with a curve like Tena

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Tena, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Tena

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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