Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Hena is a romanization of হেনা. হেনা comes from Classical Persian, and ultimately from Arabic.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1974. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Hena is a variant of Hina. The history of Hina gives this family its wider story. In mythological stories, Hina is associated with a dual goddess symbolizing day and night.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Hena through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 353
- 0 boys · 353 girls
- Most popular year
- 1999
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #10,404 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +55%
- Rising fast
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 10,404 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 1999. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 775 as a first name in 2020; 129 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Hena’s family of names
Hena has a related form in Hina. In Bengali usage, Hena is a Roman-alphabet rendering of হেনা.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Hena
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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