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“Praise (Turkish given name, from Arabic)” — Turkish (from Arabic) origin
Girl's name · #3162 in the US (2025) · Heirloom
Sena is an heirloom: its strongest era came around 1884, when it ranked #396. It has thinned since but never left the records — about 3,100 girls since 1880, ranked #3162 today. In all that time it has never once missed a year of the national records. Together with its spelling variant Senna (#1757), Sena would rank around #1334 with about 170 births last year — the newborns split about 69/31 between Senna and Sena.
Around the world: about 1 in 2,600 girls in Switzerland (2024) · about 1 in 2,900 girls in Belgium (2025) · about 1 in 3,000 girls in Austria (2025).
Appears in 2020-2025 birth records of 3 states. See the full state-by-state map on this page.
Among 96 notable people named Sena:
Entertainers appear 2.82× more often than among typical names — e.g. Sena Jurinac, Female opera singer (1921–2011).
Similar names: Hala · Zella · Lenna · Aayat · Amna · Isa
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