Jenaya
Jenaya was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,075 among girls’ names; 1,006 Americans have been recorded with it since 1973 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenaya by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jenaya?
#8,075 among girls’ names, 2025
Jenaya fell from #7,420 in 2015 to #8,075 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 8.1 per million.
55 babies in 2007, the peak
Jenaya peaked in 2007, when 55 girls were given it, #3,148 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,075 | 8.1 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,853 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 7 | #12,713 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,649 | 4.9 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,798 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 10 | #9,850 | 6.2 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,812 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 15 | #7,544 | 8.8 |
| 2017 | 20 | #6,150 | 11.6 |
| 2016 | 15 | #7,764 | 8.5 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,420 | 9.0 |
| 2014 | 31 | #4,591 | 17.4 |
| 2013 | 18 | #6,856 | 10.3 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,314 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 26 | #5,278 | 14.8 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,316 | 14.6 |
| 2009 | 42 | #3,764 | 22.9 |
| 2008 | 39 | #4,041 | 20.6 |
| 2007 | 55 | #3,148 | 28.6 |
| 2006 | 45 | #3,527 | 23.7 |
| 2005 | 51 | #3,099 | 27.6 |
| 2004 | 53 | #2,973 | 28.9 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,141 | 17.5 |
| 2002 | 39 | #3,485 | 21.7 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,895 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 32 | #3,923 | 17.6 |
| 1999 | 37 | #3,393 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,227 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,296 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,179 | 8.6 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,399 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,130 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 14 | #6,400 | 7.7 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,812 | 7.1 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,060 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,523 | 5.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,171 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,826 | 6.2 |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,617 | 5.2 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,285 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,699 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,018 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 13 | #5,261 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,331 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,047 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,679 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,387 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,965 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,649 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,872 | 3.4 |
| 1973 | 24 | #2,858 | 16.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenaya a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenaya has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jenaya: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenaya, and how old are they?
An estimated 990 Americans named Jenaya and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 16 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 783 people named Jenaya (783 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 935 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% 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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 268,642 babies since 1880, Jenaya is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 619 babies (2.1%), the fifth 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 Jenaya
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 Jenaya and names like it
- Compare Jenaya and JennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJenaya peaked in 2007.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenaya since 1910.
- The top names of 2007The year the most babies were named Jenaya.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jenaya alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.