Entry № 4897 · English origin

Jenna Jenna — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JEN-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Fair / white (Jenna Ortega, Wednesday; Jenna Fischer; Jenna Bush)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Modern (English)

A name that means "fair / white (jenna ortega, wednesday; jenna fischer; jenna bush)".

Jenna is an English-American invention from the 1970s — possibly a respelling of Jenny + the Italian -a feminine ending, or a contraction of Jennifer (Welsh Gwenhwyfar, "white phantom"). Bush; Today show co-anchor. Jenna Coleman — Doctor Who (2012-2015), Victoria (2016-2019). Jenna Jameson — adult-industry pioneer.

Fair / white.

The name in its native script.

Jenna
Transliteration
Jenna
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒɛn.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jenna stands.

Jenna does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jennas before her.

Real people
Jenna Ortega
American actress.
born 2002
Jenna Fischer
American actress (The Office).
born 1974
Jenna Bush Hager
American journalist.
born 1981
In fiction
Pam Beesly
The Office.
2005
Wednesday Addams
Wednesday.
2022

Names connected to Jenna.

The number behind Jenna.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jenna reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.