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Senna vs Senora

American parents have registered 1,205 Sennas since 1880, against 1,065 Senoras. Senna is still ahead, with 130 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Senna against Senora, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Senna 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 123 years in which either name was published, Senora for 92 years and Senna for 31 years. The lead changed hands once.

Side by side

  Senna Senora
Total US births 1,2051,065
Most in one year 13023
Babies in 2025 1305
Estimated living today 1,200600
Median age today 657
Peak year 20251923
Best rank 1,747th girls1,782nd girls
Rank in 2025 1,747th14,942nd
First recorded 19441881
Girls / boys 1,098 / 1071,065 / 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 Sennas are over 6. That is 51 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: Senna and Senora.