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The first name 
Thena

Thena is a first name for girls.

Thena – a very rare name!

Recently, the name Thena has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Thena. That means that a girl named Thena is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Thena.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Thena

Thena -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Thena. Girls named Thena have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,520 Thena ranked higher than ever in 1905. By comparison, there have been 110 years in which the first name Thena has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their daughters Thena only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves really special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Thena was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Thena in 2022 – a precious jewel

In 2022, Thena continues to be a precious jewel: 25 newborns were named Thena that year, ranking #4,546 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Thena, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.

Thena -
at home in

Meeting a woman or girl named Thena is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Thena can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Thena. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Thena living in one state or another (if your name is Thena and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Thena is in Texas, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in Texas, only 0.00005% of all female residents are named Thena – that’s just one in 1,867,587! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 6 women with that name. So, if your name is Thena, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.

Thena has 5 letters 
and begins with a T

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter T is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. Because: 6.3% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for girls’ names are A, S and M.

With five letters, the name Thena is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

With 6.3% of all girls' names that begin with a T, this first letter is thus much more common than all 26 letters on average - and the most popular one of all the girls’ names starting with T is Teresa.

Other names with 
T, h, e, n and a

If you take all the letters in the name Thena – T, h, e, n and a – and put them together again, you can form other names, such as Thane or others.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Thena

If your name is Thena and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Thena

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Thena, you can simply say:

Tiger

Hat

Elephant

Nut

Apple

This is how the name Thena is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Thena in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Thena

Thena

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Thena

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Thena is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

T
H
E
N
A

Have you ever waved the name Thena

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

T
H
E
N
A

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Thena sounds like this: