Jene — unisex name

What the Data Says About Jene

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,572 babies named Jene between 1915 and 2008, spanning 94 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jene currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2008. The name reached its historical peak in 1987, when 45 babies received it in a single year. Jene is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 646 additional births since 1915.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jene performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 356 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Jene shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 141 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Louisiana and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Jene in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jene in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,572 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.