Jenavieve
Jenavieve was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,006 among girls’ names; 997 Americans have been recorded with it since 1988 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenavieve by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jenavieve?
#6,006 among girls’ names, 2025
Jenavieve fell from #3,882 in 2015 to #6,006 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.8 to 12.4 per million.
65 babies in 2011, the peak
Jenavieve peaked in 2011, when 65 girls were given it, #2,706 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 31% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,006 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,694 | 13.6 |
| 2023 | 19 | #6,269 | 11.8 |
| 2022 | 25 | #5,230 | 15.2 |
| 2021 | 29 | #4,671 | 17.7 |
| 2020 | 37 | #3,865 | 22.9 |
| 2019 | 37 | #3,961 | 22.0 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,704 | 24.1 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,659 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 47 | #3,394 | 26.5 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 39 | #3,882 | 21.8 |
| 2014 | 50 | #3,247 | 28.0 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,530 | 25.1 |
| 2012 | 41 | #3,810 | 23.3 |
| 2011 | 65 | #2,706 | 37.0 |
| 2010 | 50 | #3,277 | 28.1 |
| 2009 | 52 | #3,217 | 28.3 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,936 | 31.7 |
| 2007 | 25 | #5,597 | 13.0 |
| 2006 | 35 | #4,201 | 18.4 |
| 2005 | 36 | #3,983 | 19.5 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,863 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,303 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 31 | #4,115 | 17.3 |
| 2001 | 18 | #6,164 | 10.0 |
| 2000 | 16 | #6,617 | 8.8 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,431 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 10 | #8,873 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #12,753 | 3.4 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,068 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,299 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,443 | 3.3 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,349 | 5.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenavieve a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenavieve has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jenavieve: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenavieve, and how old are they?
An estimated 988 Americans named Jenavieve and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 15 years old and half are between 9 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 728 people named Jenavieve (728 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 848 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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 Jenavieve born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,622 | 1.4× |
Where Jenavieve is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jenavieve is most over-represented in California: since 1988 it was given 1.4 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 Jenavieve 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 3,919 babies since 1880, Jenavieve is the second most given (25% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 101 babies (20%), again the second most given.
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 Jenavieve
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 Jenavieve and names like it
- Compare Jenavieve and JenevieveBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJenavieve peaked in 2011.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenavieve since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Jenavieve.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jenavieve alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.