Zenah
#14,914 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Zenah has been given to 21 babies in the U.S. since 1996. In 2025 it ranked #14,914 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 6 recorded.
Babies named Zenah, 2025
1 in 553,000
Zenah 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Zenah?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 268,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #14,914
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Zenah sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zenah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Zenahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Zenah was born before 2017 — so the typical Zenah is around 8 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 47.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 52.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 21
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Zenah 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
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (6)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Zenah
Zenah is not the most common spelling — Leah is, with 39.7% against Zenah's <0.01%.
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.
Zenah around the world
Where Zenah 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 & Wales1999–2024#5,892in 2024
- South Australia1987–1987#684in 1987
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Zenah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Zenah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Zenah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.