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Trena

Girls' name

Short form of Trendafilka

Trena has been given to 5,160 babies in the U.S. since 1913. 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 1971, with 255 recorded.

Babies named Trena, 2009

1 in 764,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Trena: meaning, origin, and history

Short form of Trendafilka

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Trena means

Trena is a short form of Trendafilka.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Trena is used in Macedonian.

Origin, language, and formation

Trena is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Trendafilka.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,160 girls were recorded with the name Trena between 1913 and 2009. Its highest annual count was 255 in 1971; its best national rank was #644 in 1971.

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 Trena?

Trena had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among girls only
1 in 367,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Trena 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 2009 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 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Trena. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Trenas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Trena was born before 1967 — so the typical Trena is around 58 today.

Median birth year
1967
About 58 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
34.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.2%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,684
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 34.2% of all recorded uses (1,764).

Is Trena 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 1971 (255)
Years since peak
54
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#644
1971

Spellings of Trena

Trena is not the most common spelling — Brenda is, with 21.4% against Trena's 0.18%.

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 Trena is used

Across 1910–2025, Trena was most concentrated in West Virginia — about 1 in 16,667 girls, against 1 in 51,086 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1West Virginia1 in 16,667
  2. 2Indiana1 in 25,000
  3. 3Kentucky1 in 25,000
  4. 4Tennessee1 in 25,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 33,333
  6. 6Louisiana1 in 33,333
  7. 7Mississippi1 in 33,333
  8. 8North Carolina1 in 33,333

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

Trena around the world

Where Trena 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.

  • Canada
    1991–1991
    #2,131
    in 1991
  • South Australia
    1949–1976
    #645
    in 1976

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Trena in other languages

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

TenaTrinaTreena

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

Trena 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
#644
1971
Peak year
1971
255 that year
First recorded
1913
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
5,160
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Trena

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

TreenaTrevaTressaTresaLeenaTressieSalenaSienaReenaCelenaIrenaZenaDeenaMalenaMakenaNeenaAdenaAlenaXenaKarenaRaenaMilenaMeenaTena

Names with a curve like Trena

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

DoriLanetteKandyJuliLorindaSharlaDawnaDanitaMartiYolondaDedraJanene

Sibling names for Trena

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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