Given name
Nevena
“marigold”
Nevena is a feminine given name. It is used in Czech.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Nevena is a romanization of Невена. Невена goes back to a word meaning “marigold.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2001. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Nevena through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 107
- 0 boys · 107 girls
- Most popular year
- 2014
- 9 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #16,586 for girls
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −47%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for girls, ranking No. 16,586 among girls’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 440 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Nevena’s family of names
In Macedonian usage, Nevena is a Roman-alphabet rendering of Невена.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Nevena
- Nevena BožovićSerbian singerborn 1994
- Nevena KokanovaBulgarian actress (1938–2000)
- Nevena JovanovićSerbian basketball player (born 1990)
- Nevena IgnjatovićSerbian alpine skierborn 1990
- Nevena GeorgievaYugoslav partisan1925–1942
- Nevena TsonevaBulgarian singerborn 1986
- Nevena LukicOlympic taekwondo practitionerborn 1981
- Nevena BuyuklievaBulgarian actor1896–1966
- Nevena VukesSerbian actressborn 1990
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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