Jenna
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Anglo-American form of Jeanne; from Hebrew Yôḥānān, “God is merciful”
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/dʒɛnə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Jenna is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- FIFinland1 in 481(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 2.4K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 3.1K
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.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 560 (measured from records)
- 1 in 481 (inferred from the name graph)
140,773 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Anglo-American form of Jeanne; from Hebrew Yôḥānān, “God is merciful.”
Sources 1
- Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jenna 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #615 | 140,773 | 1 in 2.4K | 141K | Jenna | 560 |
| GB United Kingdom | #479 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 5K | 4 | Jenna | 265 |
| FI Finland | #420 | 11,574 | 1 in 481 | 12K | Jenna | 74 |
| CA Canada | #520 | ≈8,400 est. | ≈1 in 4.5K | 11 | Jenna | 245 |
| AU Australia | #460 | ≈8,200 est. | ≈1 in 3.1K | 86 | Jenna | 195 |
140,773 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Jenna is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, Cornish; fair, soft. Also a variation of Jennifer.
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In French, Diminutif anglais moderne de Jennifer ou Jeanne; origine celtique/latine par extension.
as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)
In Swedish, Jenna är en form av → Jenny. Under 1800-talet användes namnet i Sverige som en variant av Jeanna, vilket i sin tur är en försvenskning av Jeanne (→ Johanna). I nutiden har namnet snarare lånats från USA. I den finlandssvenska almanackan 21 juli.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, short form of Jennifer or Jane
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In German, in den i98oer-Jahren aus dem Eng lischen ['d3ena] entlehnter weibl. Vom., latinisierte Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jenna Sternb. 1967USAmerican actress
- Jenna Elfmanb. 1971USAmerican actress and producer
- Jenna Jamesonb. 1974USAmerican pornographic actress
- Jenna Fischerb. 1974USAmerican actress
- Jenna Dewanb. 1980USAmerican actress, dancer and model (born 1980)
- Jenna Hagerb. 1981USAmerican journalist, author, and television personality
- Jenna Hazeb. 1982USAmerican pornographic actress
- Jenna Colemanb. 1986GBBritish actress
- Jenna Ortegab. 2002USAmerican actress (born 2002)
- Vivian Jenna Wilsonb. 2004USAmerican model
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)
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 83 sources across 46 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 141K | #401 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 12K | #189 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 12K | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 418 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 164 | #401 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 1991 | 86 | #99 |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 60 | — |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 1991 | 52 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #14,737 |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 11 | #388 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 8 | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2025 | 4 | #334 |
Reference works 4
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
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
- What are other forms of the name Jenna?
- In the etymology graph, Jennifer, Janet and Janice are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Jane and Johanna.
- Is Jenna a male or female name?
- Jenna 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.
- What does the name Jenna mean, and where does it come from?
- Anglo-American form of Jeanne; from Hebrew Yôḥānān, “God is merciful.” Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
- How common is the name Jenna?
- In the United States, the national register counted 140,773 people named Jenna in 2020, about 1 in 2.4 thousand residents.
- How common is Jenna compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jenna is the 615th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Jenna have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 141 thousand people named Jenna, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jenna.
- Where is Jenna most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jenna is densest in Finland — about 1 in 481 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How do you pronounce Jenna?
- A machine transcription gives /dʒɛnə/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Jenna?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jennaThe 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, “Jenna” — the 615th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.