Fenna

given name · Latin script

Meaning: niederdeutsch-friesischer weibl

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/fɛna/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Fenna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Netherlands than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • NLNetherlands1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 392K
  • DKDenmark1 in 419K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Netherlands (measured from records)

10,318 people

Sources
12 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Netherlands

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Feñña in CL Chile.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

recorded in German

niederdeutsch-friesischer weibl. Vom., dessen Herkunft umstritten ist. Am ehesten handelt es sich um eine Kurzform von

Sources 1

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

Where in the world(measured from records)

Fenna counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Fenna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
NL Netherlands10,3181 in 1.7K10KFenna11
ES Spain331 in 1.5M33Fenna8
SE Sweden261 in 392K26——
DK Denmark141 in 419K14——
CL Chile≈10 est.≈1 in 1.8M—Feñña2
FI Finland51 in 1.1M25——

10,318 people counted by Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Fenna is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Ukrainian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Ukraine, Russia

    Languages: Ukrainian, Russian

    Also written Фенна

41 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1700180019002000Fenna Mastenbroek, b. 1788Fenna de Meyier, b. 1874Fenna Feenstra Kuiper, b. 1892Fenny Heemskerk, b. 1919Fenna Williams, b. 1956Fenna Feenstra, b. 1970Fenna Ramos, b. 1991Fenna Vanhoutte, b. 1997Fenna Kalma, b. 1999

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHallo Fenna,Hi Fenna, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 32 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Fenna
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—10K#231
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—8.5K#454
NL NetherlandsSVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered)2017410#21
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—33#39,235
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—26#20,730
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—26#21,915
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#16,820
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—25#16,125
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202014—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—14#6,488
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—5—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2014——

Reference works 3

  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

In which country does Fenna have the most bearers?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Fenna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled fenna.
Where is Fenna most common?
Fenna is densest in the Netherlands, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Fenna?
In the Netherlands, the national register counted 10,318 people named Fenna, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
How do you pronounce Fenna?
A machine transcription gives /fɛna/ (IPA) for Dutch.
What does the name Fenna mean?
Recorded meaning: niederdeutsch-friesischer weibl.
Is Fenna a male or female name?
Fenna is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.

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The payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.

About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Fenna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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