Naena
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Naena is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ghana it is the 3rd most common given name.
- MYMalaysia≈1 in 5.5M(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 43Kas Nana
- GHGhana≈1 in 3.3Mas Naną
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 Naena 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 387 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.5M (inferred from the name graph)
7,719 named Nana, 2020
Highest-authority source
Malaysia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Nana in US United States, GH Ghana, MY Malaysia.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Naena 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 | — | 7,719as Nana | 1 in 43K | 5.4K | Nana | 387 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,703as Nana | 1 in 3.4K | 1.7K | — | 4 |
| BR Brazil | — | 539as Nana | 1 in 393K | 659 | — | 4 |
| FI Finland | — | 529as Nana | 1 in 11K | 595 | — | 19 |
| PL Poland | — | 514as Nana | 1 in 74K | 506 | — | 1 |
| SE Sweden | — | 391as Nana | 1 in 26K | 391 | — | 26 |
| SI Slovenia | — | 200as Nana | 1 in 11K | 200 | — | 6 |
| IS Iceland | — | 15as Nana | 1 in 23K | 15 | — | — |
| GH Ghana | #3 | ≈9 est. | ≈1 in 3.3M | — | Nana | 135 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 5.5M | — | Nana | 48 |
7,719 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); SURS — resident population given names; Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Naena a male or female name?
- Naena is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- In which country does Naena have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 7.7 thousand people named Nana, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Naena?
- In the United States, the national register counted 7,719 people named Nana in 2020, about 1 in 43 thousand residents.
- How common is Naena compared with other names?
- In Ghana, Naena is the 3rd most common given name of 14,081 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Naena?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/naenaThe 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, “Naena” — the 3rd most common given name in Ghana. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.