Jenalee
Jenalee was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 461 Americans have been recorded with it between 1973 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenalee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jenalee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,607, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1986, the peak
Jenalee peaked in 1986, when 33 girls were given it, #2,872 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #16,607 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,894 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,898 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,632 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #17,688 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,761 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,344 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,385 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 6 | #15,825 | 3.4 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,338 | 3.8 |
Every recorded year (38)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 17 | #7,546 | 9.0 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,808 | 6.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #10,949 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,326 | 4.3 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,359 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,017 | 3.8 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,579 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 7 | #12,627 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 7 | #11,897 | 3.9 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,123 | 3.4 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,751 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,051 | 4.0 |
| 1995 | 10 | #8,342 | 5.7 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,129 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,205 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,220 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,768 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,374 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,932 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,721 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 32 | #2,984 | 18.4 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,872 | 19.2 |
| 1985 | 32 | #2,884 | 18.6 |
| 1984 | 23 | #3,554 | 13.7 |
| 1983 | 14 | #4,977 | 8.4 |
| 1982 | 23 | #3,568 | 13.6 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,516 | 6.0 |
| 1973 | 6 | #7,800 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenalee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenalee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 38 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jenalee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenalee, and how old are they?
An estimated 451 Americans named Jenalee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 21 and 40. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 412 people named Jenalee (410 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 453 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 9,845 babies since 1880, Jenalee is the fifth most given (4.7% of them).
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 Jenalee
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 Jenalee and names like it
- Compare Jenalee and JenelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJenalee peaked in 1986.
- Utah’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenalee since 1910.
- The top names of 1986The year the most babies were named Jenalee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jenalee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.