Jen — unisex name

What the Data Says About Jen

The Social Security Administration has registered 318 babies named Jen between 1922 and 2009, spanning 88 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jen currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2009. The name reached its historical peak in 1959, when 14 babies received it in a single year. Jen is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 86 additional births since 1985.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jen performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 89 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Jen shows a clear decline from its mid-century high.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jen in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 318 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.