# Tena (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/tena/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 8,186 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 8,186 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 8 | 13,829 |
| 2008 | 8 | 13,716 |
| 2009 | 6 | 17,108 |
| 2010 | 9 | 12,182 |
| 2011 | 5 | 19,350 |
| 2012 | 12 | 9,669 |
| 2016 | 6 | 16,061 |
| 2017 | 7 | 13,986 |
| 2018 | 12 | 9,104 |
| 2019 | 9 | 11,289 |
| 2020 | 9 | 11,006 |
| 2021 | 11 | 9,490 |
| 2022 | 10 | 10,327 |
| 2023 | 10 | 10,248 |
| 2025 | 5 | 17,031 |

## People named Tena

- Tena Lukas, Croatian tennis player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.