Mena

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Mena: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Mena: Recorded since 1998, it reached #440 in 2016, and it stood at #5,891 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
26times a registrar ranked it
27years from first to last
#440highest recorded position
8groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#3848
2000	#3912
2001	#3262
2002	#3409
2003	#2436
2004	#2530
2005	#3970
2006	#2781
2007	#3218
2008	#3397
2009	#2535
2010	#2589
2012	#3285
2013	#5742
2014	#2862
2015	#4103
2016	#2757
2018	#3518
2020	#4535
2021	#4634
2022	#4645
2023	#4056
2024	#5891

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 23 of the 27 years from 1998 to 2024.

In 2020: #834 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4535 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1998–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1998
First recorded at #3848 among girls in England and Wales in 1998 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Mena appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 1998, and has registered 127 births with the name.

Mena across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Mena's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3848 (1998)	#2436 (2003)	#5891 (2024)	23 of 27	127 (1998–2024)	9 (2009)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#635 (2006)	#635 (2006)	#834 (2020)	2 of 15	7 (2006–2020)	4 (2006)

Mena by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Mena in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	3	1 of 10	3
2000s	57	10 of 10	6
2010sbusiest	47	7 of 10	7
2020s	20	5 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade — the 7 years of it this list covers, averaging 7 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Mena appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #440 in Northern Ireland in 2016.

Mena's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#5891	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#4535	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3518	6	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#2757	9	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4103	5	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2862	8	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#5742	3	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3285	7	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#2589	9	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2535	9	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#3397	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#3218	6	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#2436	7	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#3409	4	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#3262	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#3912	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
2016	Northern Ireland	female	#440	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	female	#834	3	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	female	#635	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1998 and 2024, ranked in 23 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #440, first reached in 2016.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 9 births, registered in England and Wales in 2009.

Its record falls into 5 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 1 year.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2006, and 18 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Melvin · #119, 45y
Memphis · #1124, 25y
Menaal · #891, 20y
Menachem · #898, 29y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Kaitlynn · #440, 23y
Kelsi · #440, 26y
Lily-Mai · #440, 25y
Veda · #443, 18y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Abbie-Rose · #440, 10y
Aleyna · #440, 29y
Annaliese · #440, 29y
Cassia · #440, 29y

Mena was ranked #440 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2016. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Mena and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Mena without appearing here.

Mena moved ahead of

Martine Compare
In 2009 they stood at #3218 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2010 that had become #2589 and #5707.
Finlay Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5742 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #2757 and #5785.
Vicki Compare
In 2011 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3285 and #5876.
Ollie Compare
In 2005 they stood at #3970 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #2781 and #5061.

Moved ahead of Mena

Rory Compare
In 2017 they stood at #4103 and #5730 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #1977.
Blake Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2535 and #3936 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3285 and #1893.
Arlo Compare
In 2017 they stood at #2757 and #4096 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2018 that had become #3518 and #2340.
Maren Compare
In 2020 they stood at #4535 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2021 that had become #4634 and #3519.

Moved the opposite way to Mena

Ada Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mena went from #3848 to #5891 while Ada went from #3142 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mena went from #3848 to #5891 while Alma went from #2165 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mena went from #3848 to #5891 while Alyssa went from #561 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mena went from #3848 to #5891 while Amalie went from #3848 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Mena

Abigail Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mena went from #3848 to #5891 and Abigail from #22 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mena went from #3848 to #5891 and Aimee from #68 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mena went from #3848 to #5891 and Aisling from #391 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1998 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mena went from #3848 to #5891 and Alex from #179 to #2253.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1998 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #440 in Northern Ireland in 2016. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mena

Mena at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mena across 2 official records

Mena by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Mena appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Mena at a glance

Mena across 2 official records

Mena by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Mena appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Mena

Mena and the names beside it

Mena moved ahead of

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