Jenae
Jenae was given to 14 girls in 2025, #7,646 among girls’ names; 3,372 Americans have been recorded with it since 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,280 Americans named Jenae and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 25 and 40.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenae by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jenae?
#7,646 among girls’ names, 2025
Jenae fell from #5,367 in 2015 to #7,646 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 14.0 to 8.7 per million.
165 babies in 1991, the peak
Jenae peaked in 1991, when 165 girls were given it, #1,088 among girls’ names. The 14 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 14 | #7,646 | 8.7 |
| 2024 | 14 | #7,758 | 8.6 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,419 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,109 | 9.8 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,044 | 12.2 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,730 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,058 | 11.9 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,638 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 24 | #5,434 | 13.9 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,877 | 12.4 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 25 | #5,367 | 14.0 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,087 | 15.1 |
| 2013 | 32 | #4,474 | 18.2 |
| 2012 | 43 | #3,673 | 24.4 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,500 | 18.2 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,063 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,763 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,805 | 16.4 |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,625 | 23.4 |
| 2006 | 66 | #2,716 | 34.7 |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,535 | 36.8 |
| 2004 | 60 | #2,721 | 32.7 |
| 2003 | 68 | #2,421 | 37.2 |
| 2002 | 74 | #2,233 | 41.2 |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,908 | 50.5 |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,347 | 36.3 |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,921 | 46.2 |
| 1998 | 97 | #1,659 | 54.9 |
| 1997 | 102 | #1,572 | 58.6 |
| 1996 | 85 | #1,757 | 48.5 |
| 1995 | 76 | #1,853 | 43.2 |
| 1994 | 98 | #1,564 | 54.9 |
| 1993 | 117 | #1,393 | 64.7 |
| 1992 | 141 | #1,232 | 76.5 |
| 1991 | 165 | #1,088 | 88.0 |
| 1990 | 114 | #1,387 | 60.0 |
| 1989 | 121 | #1,299 | 65.6 |
| 1988 | 127 | #1,191 | 71.3 |
| 1987 | 109 | #1,285 | 62.7 |
| 1986 | 93 | #1,384 | 54.2 |
| 1985 | 99 | #1,334 | 57.5 |
| 1984 | 100 | #1,267 | 59.4 |
| 1983 | 81 | #1,440 | 48.5 |
| 1982 | 77 | #1,539 | 45.5 |
| 1981 | 70 | #1,651 | 42.0 |
| 1980 | 58 | #1,874 | 34.9 |
| 1979 | 47 | #2,125 | 29.3 |
| 1978 | 53 | #1,872 | 34.6 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,139 | 28.7 |
| 1976 | 29 | #2,683 | 19.8 |
| 1975 | 25 | #2,907 | 17.1 |
| 1974 | 27 | #2,709 | 18.4 |
| 1973 | 19 | #3,391 | 13.0 |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,386 | 8.5 |
| 1971 | 19 | #3,412 | 11.4 |
| 1970 | 13 | #4,340 | 7.4 |
| 1969 | 16 | #3,516 | 9.5 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,090 | 7.3 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,424 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,821 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,503 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,549 | 3.6 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,110 | 5.6 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,647 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,106 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenae a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenae has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jenae: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenae, and how old are they?
3,280 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 3,372 Americans ever recorded as Jenae. The median Jenae alive today is 34 years old; half are between 25 and 40.
The 2020 Census counted 3,054 people named Jenae (3,041 women and girls, 13 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,218 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 25 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 380 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,630 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 992 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 259 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Jenae born?
The states with the most babies named Jenae are California, Texas and New York, with 59% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 478 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 133 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 105 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 78 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 78 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Washington | 67 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Florida | 53 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 46 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 32 | not ranked | 0.5× |
Where Jenae is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jenae is most over-represented in California: since 1958 it was given 1.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jenae with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 574,279 babies since 1880, Jenae is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 14 of their 736 babies (1.9%), the seventh most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Jenae
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Jenae and names like it
- Compare Jenae and JeanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJenae peaked in 1991.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenae since 1910.
- The top names of 1991The year the most babies were named Jenae.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jenae alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.