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How popular is the name Zena?
Births per year, rank history and how many Zenas are alive today.
Zena (female) is a rare girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 2605th in 2025 and given to 10 babies. This spelling of the name peaked in 1998, when 29 babies were given the name, the 787th most popular that year. It has declined since 1998; the 2025 figure is roughly 34% of its peak. Zena is one spelling of a name also recorded as Xena, Zeina and Zina; the combined figures below cover every spelling.
Across all spellings of the name, the Zena you are most likely to meet is around 27 years old - or else around 2: the name has two living generations. Half of all Zenas born in England and Wales are between 8 and 27, and there are at least 1,400 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Zena - on average, only one in every 225 such rooms contains a Zena.
How many babies are named Zena each year?
Includes all spellings: Zena, Xena, Zeina, Zina. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
Where does the Zena spelling rank?
Where does the Xena spelling rank?
Where does the Zeina spelling rank?
Where does the Zina spelling rank?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Zena most popular?
Zena peaked in 1998, when 67 babies in England and Wales were given the name across all spellings.
How many people are called Zena?
At least 1,400 people named Zena in any spelling born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Zena?
Most living Zenas are between 8 and 27; the most common age is about 27. There is a second cluster around 2.
Is Zena becoming more or less popular?
Well past its peak: today's figures are a fraction of the 1998 peak, though numbers have levelled off in recent years.