girl's name

Jenaya

  • Gender Girl
  • Letters 6
  • Popularity Rare
  • Births on record 1,432

Jenaya is a girl's name. In 2025 it was given to 13 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

  • Peaked in 2007, when 55 babies were given the name.
  • It has been falling over the past decade.
  • Today about 1 in 255,037 babies in the United States is given this name.
  • First appears in US birth records in 1973.

Jenaya over time

Births per decade in the United States, 1970s to 2020s. The striped bar is the 2020s, still in progress — it covers 2020 to 2025, not a full ten years.

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Births named Jenaya by decade in the United States
Decade Births
1970s 54
1980s 106
1990s 167
2000s 412
2010s 205
2020s (to 2025) 62

How popular is Jenaya?

In 2025, Jenaya was given to 13 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Where Jenaya is used

Canada #1,846 13 in 2024
France #2,277 20 in 2025
England & Wales #3,314 8 in 2025
United States #8,318 13 in 2025

The bar shows how near the top of each country's list the name sits, on a scale where #1 fills the row and #1,000 is a sliver. The figures beside it are the real rank and the babies recorded that year.

US figures omit any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so the rarest names are absent from the source rather than absent from use. Data & sources.

How Jenaya is spelled

Birth registers count each spelling separately, so every one has its own ranking.

Spelling What it is Births on record
Jénaya Jénaya is a rare spelling of Jenaya, written with an acute accent and recorded about 10 times, mostly in France. 10

Names that peaked alongside Jenaya

These names rose and fell in the same era, which is why they tend to sound like they belong together.

Parents who like Jenaya also like

Names whose popularity has risen and fallen in step with Jenaya over the last century — the same taste, a different name.

Sibling names for Jenaya

Names from the same era that won't rhyme or share an initial with Jenaya — the two things that make a sibling set grate.

Common questions about Jenaya

How popular is the name Jenaya?

In 2025, Jenaya was given to 13 babies in the United States. It is a rare choice.

Is Jenaya a girl's or a boy's name?

Jenaya is given almost entirely to girls in birth records.

When was Jenaya most popular?

Jenaya peaked in 2007, when 55 babies were given the name. It has been falling over the past decade.

Is Jenaya a good name?

That is not something records can settle, but they can tell you what you would be choosing. Jenaya currently ranks #1,846 in the United States. It has been falling over the past decade. Everything else — how it sounds with your surname, who it reminds you of — is yours.