Jenessa — #6214 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Jenessa

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,208 babies named Jenessa between 1968 and 2024, spanning 57 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jenessa currently holds the #6214 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1991, when 156 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jenessa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 893 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Jenessa shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 595 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Utah. In total, SSA state-level files list Jenessa in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jenessa 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 3,208 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.