Gehenna

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: Alternative letter-case form of Gehenna

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

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

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 200Kas Geena(measured from records)
  • AUAustralia≈1 in 145Kas Geena
  • SGSingapore≈1 in 158Kas Geena

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Gehenna itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈3,100 named Geena, est.

Sources
247 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 145K (inferred from the name graph)

Australia, est., as Geena

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

GeenaLatin(measured from records)

Locally spelled Geena in US United States, AU Australia, PH Philippines and 5 more.

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)

Alternative letter-case form of Gehenna.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

How Gehenna is read(measured from records)

Gehenna is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English47%

    Alternative letter-case form of Gehenna.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

    valley of Hinom, Israel

    as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

  • Spanish27%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Gehenna in Spanish.

  • Portuguese9.1%

    alternative spelling of Geena

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • French9.1%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Gehenna in French.

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Gehenna 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 Gehenna is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China≈3,100 est.≈1 in 447K—Geena8
US United States1,661as Geena1 in 200K1.7KGeena247
ID Indonesia≈580 est.≈1 in 459K—Geena21
PH Philippines≈190 est.≈1 in 590K—Geena20
AU Australia≈180 est.≈1 in 145K1Geena60
NL Netherlands88as Geena1 in 196K88Geena12
SG Singapore≈39 est.≈1 in 158K—Geena19
KW Kuwait≈15 est.≈1 in 197K—Geena6

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; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)

Gehenna is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France

    Also written Gehenne, Géhenne

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Geenna

7 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Gehenna is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Latin, the Hinnom Valley (a valley near Jerusalem where children were immolated for Moloch)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Czech, gehenna (one of various hells in Abrahamic religions)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Polish, ordeal

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Gehenna under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Gehenna mean, and where does it come from?
Alternative letter-case form of Gehenna. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Gehenna a male or female name?
Gehenna 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.
In which country does Gehenna have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 3.1 thousand people named Geena in China, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Gehenna?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,661 people named Geena in 2020, about 1 in 200 thousand residents.

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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, “Gehenna”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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