Sena vs Senora
American parents have registered 3,326 Senas since 1880, against 1,065 Senoras. Sena is still ahead, with 62 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Sena Senora
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Sena for 129 years and Senora for 17 years. The lead changed hands 26 times.
- 1880–1947 Sena ahead, apart from 4 short spells
- 1953–1955 Senora ahead
- 1956–2025 Sena ahead, apart from 2 short spells
18 shorter spells of a year or two are folded into the spans above rather than listed separately.
Side by side
| Sena | Senora | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 3,326 | 1,065 |
| Most in one year | 72 | 23 |
| Babies in 2025 | 62 | 5 |
| Estimated living today | 2,200 | 600 |
| Median age today | 21 | 57 |
| Peak year | 2023 | 1923 |
| Best rank | 2,757th girls | 1,782nd girls |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,130th | 14,942nd |
| First recorded | 1880 | 1881 |
| Girls / boys | 3,121 / 205 | 1,065 / 0 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Senoras alive today are over 57; half the Senas are over 21. That is 36 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Sena and Senora.