Jenay
Jenay was last recorded in 2018, when 6 babies were given it; 964 Americans have been recorded with it between 1958 and 2018 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenay by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jenay?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,599, in 2018; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
49 babies in 1987, the peak
Jenay peaked in 1987, when 49 girls were given it, #2,208 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2018 | 6 | #14,599 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,983 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,323 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,807 | 6.2 |
| 2013 | 9 | #11,401 | 5.1 |
| 2012 | 13 | #8,849 | 7.4 |
| 2011 | 13 | #8,855 | 7.4 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,685 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,105 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,234 | 11.6 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 15 | #8,276 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,856 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,167 | 13.5 |
| 2004 | 27 | #4,864 | 14.7 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,150 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,597 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,748 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,313 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 19 | #5,517 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 23 | #4,703 | 13.0 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,905 | 12.1 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,576 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,745 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 35 | #3,254 | 19.6 |
| 1993 | 32 | #3,454 | 17.7 |
| 1992 | 42 | #2,840 | 22.8 |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,520 | 26.1 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,758 | 22.1 |
| 1989 | 36 | #3,002 | 19.5 |
| 1988 | 42 | #2,555 | 23.6 |
| 1987 | 49 | #2,208 | 28.2 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,088 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 15 | #4,944 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 15 | #4,825 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,176 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,416 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,608 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,600 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 22 | #3,587 | 13.7 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,521 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,040 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,758 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,749 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,476 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 5 | #8,933 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,649 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 7 | #6,891 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,611 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 7 | #5,479 | 4.1 |
| 1965 | 5 | #6,923 | 2.8 |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,648 | 2.5 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,107 | 3.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenay a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenay has been given almost only to girls: 5 boys in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jenay: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenay, and how old are they?
An estimated 938 Americans named Jenay 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 39. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 890 people named Jenay (867 women and girls, 23 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 945 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% 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 8 names spelled alike, given to 275,489 babies since 1880, Jenay is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 651 babies recorded by SSA was a Jenay (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jenay
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 Jenay and names like it
- Compare Jenay and JennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJenay peaked in 1987.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenay since 1910.
- The top names of 1987The year the most babies were named Jenay.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jenay alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.