Jenetta
Jenetta was last recorded in 1996, when 5 babies were given it; 652 Americans have been recorded with it between 1910 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenetta by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jenetta?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,454, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
18 babies in 1983, the peak
Jenetta peaked in 1983, when 18 girls were given it, #4,177 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | #14,454 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 7 | #11,007 | 4.0 |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,057 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 7 | #10,743 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,618 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 10 | #7,664 | 5.4 |
| 1988 | 5 | #12,597 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 12 | #5,918 | 7.0 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,357 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,054 | 6.5 |
Every recorded year (71)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | 18 | #4,177 | 10.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,107 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,518 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,557 | 3.6 |
| 1979 | 10 | #6,384 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,967 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,539 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,248 | 6.1 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,512 | 6.8 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,225 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 7 | #6,829 | 4.6 |
| 1971 | 6 | #7,752 | 3.6 |
| 1970 | 6 | #7,427 | 3.4 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,044 | 7.7 |
| 1968 | 9 | #4,918 | 5.5 |
| 1967 | 11 | #4,149 | 6.7 |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,822 | 7.1 |
| 1965 | 15 | #3,319 | 8.5 |
| 1964 | 13 | #3,771 | 6.9 |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,522 | 7.3 |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,520 | 3.6 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,111 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,788 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,144 | 4.9 |
| 1957 | 8 | #4,690 | 3.9 |
| 1956 | 7 | #5,039 | 3.5 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,286 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,407 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,313 | 3.2 |
| 1952 | 9 | #3,951 | 4.9 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,629 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,735 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,712 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,849 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,274 | 3.2 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,809 | 5.4 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,239 | 12.1 |
| 1943 | 11 | #2,938 | 7.9 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,560 | 5.9 |
| 1941 | 11 | #2,745 | 9.1 |
| 1940 | 11 | #2,639 | 9.6 |
| 1939 | 8 | #3,275 | 7.3 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,036 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,044 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,439 | 11.5 |
| 1935 | 13 | #2,362 | 12.4 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,614 | 6.7 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,953 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 7 | #3,740 | 6.6 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,103 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,283 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,825 | 9.9 |
| 1928 | 8 | #3,591 | 6.9 |
| 1927 | 10 | #3,164 | 8.4 |
| 1926 | 12 | #2,796 | 10.1 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,359 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 8 | #3,826 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,832 | 6.5 |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,779 | 6.7 |
| 1919 | 10 | #3,103 | 8.8 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,024 | 17.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenetta a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenetta has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 71 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jenetta: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenetta, and how old are they?
An estimated 419 Americans named Jenetta and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (64% of everyone recorded); the median is 59 years old and half are between 45 and 71. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 466 people named Jenetta (464 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 469 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 177,772 babies since 1880, Jenetta is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 75 babies recorded by SSA was a Jenetta (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jenetta
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 Jenetta and names like it
- Compare Jenetta and JeanetteBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJenetta peaked in 1983.
- The top names of 1983The year the most babies were named Jenetta.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jenetta alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.