Jenell
Jenell was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 3,062 Americans have been recorded with it between 1916 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,520 Americans named Jenell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (82% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 38 and 59.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jenell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,301, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
92 babies in 1981, the peak
Jenell peaked in 1981, when 92 girls were given it, #1,355 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #16,301 | 3.0 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,557 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,136 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,901 | 3.5 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,635 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,493 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,263 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 21 | #6,210 | 11.9 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,247 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,071 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (103)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 19 | #6,920 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 22 | #6,235 | 11.6 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,541 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 17 | #7,296 | 8.9 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,388 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,996 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,167 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,209 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,486 | 7.8 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,315 | 9.4 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,637 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,228 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 20 | #5,102 | 11.5 |
| 1996 | 26 | #4,105 | 14.8 |
| 1995 | 29 | #3,703 | 16.5 |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,050 | 21.3 |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,621 | 16.6 |
| 1992 | 37 | #3,098 | 20.1 |
| 1991 | 40 | #2,901 | 21.3 |
| 1990 | 47 | #2,533 | 24.8 |
| 1989 | 38 | #2,889 | 20.6 |
| 1988 | 55 | #2,103 | 30.9 |
| 1987 | 70 | #1,724 | 40.3 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,847 | 35.6 |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,840 | 35.4 |
| 1984 | 65 | #1,688 | 38.6 |
| 1983 | 74 | #1,525 | 44.3 |
| 1982 | 77 | #1,540 | 45.5 |
| 1981 | 92 | #1,355 | 55.2 |
| 1980 | 90 | #1,383 | 54.2 |
| 1979 | 77 | #1,525 | 48.0 |
| 1978 | 65 | #1,643 | 42.4 |
| 1977 | 65 | #1,626 | 42.4 |
| 1976 | 63 | #1,590 | 43.0 |
| 1975 | 43 | #2,034 | 29.5 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,860 | 32.0 |
| 1973 | 69 | #1,423 | 47.3 |
| 1972 | 50 | #1,755 | 32.9 |
| 1971 | 54 | #1,698 | 32.5 |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,917 | 25.7 |
| 1969 | 46 | #1,816 | 27.3 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,658 | 29.9 |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,862 | 24.2 |
| 1966 | 41 | #1,779 | 24.2 |
| 1965 | 31 | #2,133 | 17.6 |
| 1964 | 41 | #1,846 | 21.6 |
| 1963 | 36 | #1,962 | 18.7 |
| 1962 | 39 | #1,840 | 19.8 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,324 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 28 | #2,216 | 13.8 |
| 1959 | 33 | #1,965 | 16.3 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,958 | 15.9 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,968 | 15.2 |
| 1956 | 41 | #1,669 | 20.4 |
| 1955 | 27 | #2,082 | 13.8 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,142 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,797 | 16.5 |
| 1952 | 25 | #2,041 | 13.5 |
| 1951 | 23 | #2,080 | 12.8 |
| 1950 | 29 | #1,775 | 16.9 |
| 1949 | 21 | #2,172 | 12.3 |
| 1948 | 28 | #1,798 | 16.5 |
| 1947 | 26 | #1,918 | 14.7 |
| 1946 | 37 | #1,447 | 23.5 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,015 | 13.8 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,771 | 17.3 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,031 | 13.6 |
| 1942 | 17 | #2,147 | 12.6 |
| 1941 | 26 | #1,550 | 21.5 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,610 | 21.0 |
| 1939 | 29 | #1,388 | 26.4 |
| 1938 | 30 | #1,357 | 27.2 |
| 1937 | 19 | #1,812 | 17.9 |
| 1936 | 21 | #1,663 | 20.2 |
| 1935 | 15 | #2,148 | 14.3 |
| 1934 | 17 | #1,955 | 16.3 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,768 | 9.9 |
| 1932 | 23 | #1,609 | 21.6 |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,088 | 8.5 |
| 1930 | 14 | #2,362 | 12.4 |
| 1929 | 20 | #1,853 | 17.9 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,310 | 7.8 |
| 1927 | 11 | #2,944 | 9.2 |
| 1926 | 11 | #2,960 | 9.3 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,689 | 10.7 |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,202 | 5.6 |
| 1923 | 8 | #3,781 | 6.6 |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,216 | 5.8 |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,261 | 8.1 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,777 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,030 | 6.2 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,547 | 5.2 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,759 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenell has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 103 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jenell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenell, and how old are they?
2,520 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 82% of the 3,062 Americans ever recorded as Jenell. The median Jenell alive today is 47 years old; half are between 38 and 59.
The 2020 Census counted 2,432 people named Jenell (2,412 women and girls, 20 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,648 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 111 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 453 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 816 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 815 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 274 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 54 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Jenell born?
The states with the most babies named Jenell are California, New York and Illinois, with 67% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 264 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 130 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 61 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 59 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Texas | 51 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 43 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Louisiana | 21 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Washington | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Mississippi | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Jenell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,089 babies since 1880, Jenell is the most given (50% of them).
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 Jenell
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 Jenell and names like it
- Compare Jenell and JennellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJenell peaked in 1981.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenell since 1910.
- The top names of 1981The year the most babies were named Jenell.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jenell alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.