Jeneva
Jeneva was given to 17 girls in 2025, #6,665 among girls’ names; 1,073 Americans have been recorded with it since 1905 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeneva by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jeneva?
#6,665 among girls’ names, 2025
Jeneva rose from #9,758 in 2015 to #6,665 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 6.2 to 10.6 per million.
29 babies in 1926, the peak
Jeneva peaked in 1926, when 29 girls were given it, #1,520 among girls’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,665 | 10.6 |
| 2024 | 5 | #16,328 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,909 | 6.2 |
| 2022 | 13 | #8,241 | 7.9 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,566 | 4.9 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,632 | 7.4 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,057 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #11,898 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,040 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,273 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (94)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 11 | #9,758 | 6.2 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,458 | 9.0 |
| 2013 | 5 | #17,767 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 19 | #6,712 | 10.8 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,713 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,072 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,635 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #8,301 | 7.9 |
| 2007 | 15 | #8,277 | 7.8 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,200 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,676 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 14 | #7,997 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,739 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,107 | 6.1 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,765 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,217 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,432 | 7.3 |
| 1998 | 14 | #6,862 | 7.9 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,274 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,324 | 6.8 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,739 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 18 | #5,333 | 10.1 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,038 | 5.0 |
| 1992 | 15 | #6,127 | 8.1 |
| 1991 | 20 | #4,882 | 10.7 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,649 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 21 | #4,408 | 11.4 |
| 1988 | 15 | #5,430 | 8.4 |
| 1987 | 22 | #3,905 | 12.7 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,930 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,716 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 14 | #5,047 | 8.3 |
| 1983 | 17 | #4,349 | 10.2 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,332 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,049 | 6.6 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,601 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,438 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,968 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,143 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,249 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,474 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,293 | 3.4 |
| 1971 | 13 | #4,394 | 7.8 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,203 | 4.1 |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,209 | 3.0 |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,504 | 4.0 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,188 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 7 | #5,522 | 3.5 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,346 | 2.5 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,435 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,567 | 3.9 |
| 1949 | 6 | #4,929 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,591 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,145 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,809 | 5.1 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,028 | 7.5 |
| 1943 | 10 | #3,138 | 7.2 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,170 | 5.0 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,993 | 5.5 |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,595 | 10.6 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,028 | 5.7 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,523 | 5.0 |
| 1932 | 10 | #2,934 | 9.4 |
| 1931 | 12 | #2,486 | 11.3 |
| 1930 | 12 | #2,603 | 10.7 |
| 1929 | 8 | #3,529 | 7.2 |
| 1928 | 10 | #3,040 | 8.7 |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,414 | 7.5 |
| 1926 | 29 | #1,520 | 24.5 |
| 1925 | 10 | #3,224 | 8.2 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,885 | 9.6 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,406 | 12.4 |
| 1922 | 10 | #3,258 | 8.3 |
| 1921 | 9 | #3,537 | 7.3 |
| 1920 | 13 | #2,660 | 10.8 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,577 | 11.5 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,376 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,972 | 9.2 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,399 | 7.7 |
| 1915 | 9 | #2,997 | 9.1 |
| 1913 | 9 | #2,229 | 14.4 |
| 1912 | 5 | #3,188 | 9.0 |
| 1910 | 6 | #2,275 | 15.1 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,077 | 17.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeneva a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeneva has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 94 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jeneva: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeneva, and how old are they?
An estimated 781 Americans named Jeneva and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (73% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 17 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 871 people named Jeneva (869 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 755 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 5 names spelled alike, given to 1,498 babies since 1880, Jeneva is the most given (72% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 29 babies (59%), again the most given.
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 Jeneva
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 Jeneva and names like it
- Compare Jeneva and JenevieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sJeneva peaked in 1926.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeneva since 1910.
- The top names of 1926The year the most babies were named Jeneva.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jeneva alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.