Tena
Tena is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 318th, in 1883.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1962345 births
- Best rank
- #318in 1883
- Since 1880
- 8,180people given the name
The story in the numbers
8,180 girls have been named Tena in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1962, with 345 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 345 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 1960s alone account for 30%. It has spent 57 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Tena | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 296 | |
| 1890s | 391 | |
| 1900s | 320 | |
| 1910s | 464 | |
| 1920s | 363 | |
| 1930s | 212 | |
| 1940s | 458 | |
| 1950s | 1,656 | |
| 1960s | 2,481 | |
| 1970s | 942 | |
| 1980s | 299 | |
| 1990s | 130 | |
| 2000s | 68 | |
| 2010s | 60 | |
| 2020s | 40 |
In 1962, its biggest year
Tena was the 527th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1962 were Lisa, Mary, Susan, Karen and Linda. See all of 1962.
Names that rose and fell with Tena
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Theresiapeak 1959
- Lucindapeak 1957
- Mindapeak 1951
- Deliapeak 1957
- Lorapeak 1963
- Malindapeak 1969
- Geniepeak 1982
- Minervapeak 1955
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.