Girls' name · since 1977
Jenaye
Jenaye has 143 recorded births since 1977 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1988 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #23,274 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 143
- born since 1977
- 1990s
- peak decade
Jenaye is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 143 have been recorded since 1977.
Jenaye has 143 recorded births among girls since 1977, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1977 to 2012.
- #23,274 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 143 born since 1977
- 1990s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Jenaye ranks #23,274 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 143 born since 1977, peaking in the 1990s.
- #23,274 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 143
- born since 1977
- 1990s
- peak decade
Jenaye's 143 recorded births place it above 67.76% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jenaye's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Jenaye's SSA record in two at 1994 and the more recent half accounts for 44% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 56%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1977, with only 6 births recorded -- set against the 1988 peak of 13, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Jenaye popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1977–2012
- Peak year (1988)
- 13
- Annual births at peak, across 36 years of records
Jenaye by decade
1990s is the heaviest window (70 births, 49% of the file).
1990s was Jenaye's strongest decade.
70 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 49% of all-time use.
Jenaye births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 6
1970s
6 births
- 1980s
1980s
36 births
- 1990s
1990s
70 births
- 2000s 19
2000s
19 births
- 2010s 12
2010s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 70 births (49% of all-time use).
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- Jenaye's decade-level peak was the 1990s (70 total births); usage has since declined to 12 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Jenaye: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1988)
Similar record span (~35 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1977–2012 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jenaye draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.