first name
TRENA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 4,197 people named Trena, 66% reported their origin as White, 25.5% as Black and 3.9% as two or more races. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Trena peaked in 1971, when 255 babies got the name.
At least 5,160 babies have been given the name since 1913. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero.
Trena by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1960s, when it ranked #1,336. The largest share of babies named Trena, 49%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Trena is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Trena has been most common in West Virginia (3.3×), Indiana (2.6×), and Kentucky (2.6×), and least common in Pennsylvania (0.33×).
2,709 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Trena, most common first.
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