Jenna

What Jenna means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jenna yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 6,436 babies; 418 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jenna?

US: Falling: down from #298 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #455 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1985, when 6,436 girls got the name (#50 that year). First in the US records in 1915.

How common

• About 1 in 3,845 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 8,734 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025
• About 1 in 4,473 baby girls in Scotland in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in MI (0.87 per 1,000 girls), AR (0.76 per 1,000 girls), IN (0.57 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Jenna is #679 in the US and #1133 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Jenna were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Joanna997 US · 78 E&W
• Jana181 US · 54 E&W
• Jannah140 US · 84 E&W
• Jenny142 US · 14 E&W
• Jean88 US · 10 E&W
• Janna84 US · 8 E&W
• Joana67 US · 6 E&W
• Juna50 US · 5 E&W

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Jenna

Girls

• Kaitlyn#799Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #197 in 2015, #799 in 2025
• Morgan#312Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #121 in 2015, #312 in 2025
• Gabrielle#632Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #204 in 2015, #632 in 2025
• Jordan#584Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #262 in 2015, #584 in 2025
• Jacqueline#558Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #258 in 2015, #558 in 2025
• Elisabeth#925“my God is an oath”^*

For a brother

• Seth#581“chosen one, appointed, placed”^*
• Bryan#336Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #166 in 2015, #336 in 2025
• Ruben#480Editor’s note Down from #374 in 2015 to #480 in 2025 in the US
• Trevor#679Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1998, with 6,598 babies; 400 in 2025
• Sean#489“God is gracious”^*
• Johnathan#508Variant of Jonathan, meaning “God has given”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under French, Hebrew, Irish & Celtic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jenna’s. Rank is US 2025.