Zhenya

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Zhenya has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2019. 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 2019, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Zhenya, 2021

1 in 678,000

Zhenya over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Zhenya: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Zhenya means

Zhenya is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Zhenya is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 girls were recorded with the name Zhenya between 2019 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2019; its best national rank was #17,636 in 2021.

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 Zhenya?

Zhenya had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021: 1 in 678,000; 5 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only: 1 in 328,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 469,949 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Zhenya 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 2021 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 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Zhenya. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Zhenyas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Zhenya was born before 2019 — so the typical Zhenya is around 6 today.

Median birth year: 2019; About 6 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 50.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 100.0%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 10; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 50.0% of all recorded uses (5).

Is Zhenya 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: —; 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 2019 (5)
Years since peak: 6; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #17,636; 2021

Spellings of Zhenya

Zhenya is not the most common spelling — Kenya is, with 54.9% against Zhenya's 0.02%.

Kenya54.9%25,412
Zena12.9%5,986
Shena5.1%2,356
Shanya4.7%2,156
Zenia3.8%1,770
Chenoa3.7%1,736
Shenna2.9%1,328
Henna2.9%1,324

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.

Zhenya 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: #17,636; 2021
Peak year: 2019; 5 that year
First recorded: 2019
Last recorded: 2021
All-time count: 10
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Zhenya

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

Evanya Akenya Jernya Quanya Zhanya Arinya Devanya Dahnya Adonya Keanya Jhanya Trenya Sonnya Stanya Keonya Shinya Atanya Keinya Johnya Ivanya Avanya Alonya Zianya Aranya

Sibling names for Zhenya

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Keren Leena Nala Kairi Emani Kamilah Elliot Royalty

For a brother

Joziah Ishaan Abdiel Khalid Torin Kamryn Leighton Simeon

Explore around Zhenya

Top names of 2019, Zhenya's peak year The 2010s in full Other names that peaked in 2021 Girls' names starting with Z Russian Names