Girls' name · since 1978
Jendayi
Jendayi has 141 recorded births since 1978 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1999 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 141
- total births
- 1978–2020
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 35%
- born in that decade
Jendayi sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 141 recorded since 1978.
Jendayi has 141 recorded births among girls since 1978, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1978 to 2020.
- 141 total births
- 1978–2020 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 35% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jendayi's 141 recorded births place it above 68% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jendayi's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Jendayi's SSA record in two at 1999 and the more recent half accounts for 55% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 45%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1978, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1999 peak of 11, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Jendayi popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1978–2020
- Peak year (1999)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 43 years of records
Jendayi by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Jendayi's strongest decade.
49 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 35% of all-time use.
Jendayi births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 13
1970s
13 births
- 1980s 17
1980s
17 births
- 1990s
1990s
45 births
- 2000s
2000s
49 births
- 2010s 10
2010s
10 births
- 2020s 7
2020s
7 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 49 births (35% of all-time use).
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 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, 1978–2020 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jendayi: Baby Name Since 1978 - 141 Births, Peak 1999." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jendayi. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Jendayi 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 July 2026.