Jenna Girl
How popular is Jenna?
#679 girl name in 2025
418 baby girls were named Jenna in the US in 2025, making it the 679th most popular girl name.
Jenna popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #679 for girls (▲ 3 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 418 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling fast (-62% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #298 in 2015, #548 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1985 (6,436 girls) |
| Highest rank | #45 in 2001 |
| First recorded | 1915 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Jenna counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Jenna family of names ranked #556 for girls in 2025 (#578 the year before), with 512 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Jenna | 418 | 82% |
| Jennah | 32 | 6% |
| Jena | 23 | 4% |
| Jeanna | 19 | 4% |
| Jeana | 9 | 2% |
| Jenai | 11 | 2% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Jenna is most popular
Babies named Jenna per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Michigan: 0.8 per 1,000 (148 girls)
- Indiana: 0.6 per 1,000 (85 girls)
- Kentucky: 0.6 per 1,000 (48 girls)
- Mississippi: 0.5 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- Utah: 0.5 per 1,000 (38 girls)
Jenna by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 26 | #3,090 |
| 1920s | 70 | #2,920 |
| 1930s | 159 | #1,548 |
| 1940s | 155 | #1,789 |
| 1950s | 265 | #1,764 |
| 1960s | 618 | #1,019 |
| 1970s | 4,224 | #359 |
| 1980s | 36,601 | #50 |
| 1990s | 45,856 | #61 |
| 2000s | 45,296 | #45 |
| 2010s | 12,485 | #141 |
| 2020s | 2,832 | #548 |
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Questions
- Is Jenna a boy or girl name?
- Jenna is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Jenna were girls.
- How popular is the name Jenna?
- 418 baby girls were named Jenna in the US in 2025, making it the 679th most popular girl name.
- When was Jenna most popular?
- Jenna peaked in 1985, when 6,436 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #45 in 2001.
- How many people are named Jenna?
- 148,842 babies have been named Jenna in the US since 1880. We estimate about 146,011 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 29.
- Where is Jenna most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Jenna was most common in Michigan, at 0.8 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.