Jeni
Jeni was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 2,856 Americans have been recorded with it between 1936 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,650 Americans named Jeni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 39 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jeni?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,236, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
123 babies in 1982, the peak
Jeni peaked in 1982, when 123 girls were given it, #1,143 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,236 | 3.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,302 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,186 | 3.1 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,040 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 5 | #17,387 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 8 | #12,499 | 4.6 |
| 2011 | 5 | #17,979 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,073 | 6.2 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,202 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 19 | #6,938 | 9.9 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 14 | #8,449 | 7.4 |
| 2005 | 14 | #8,079 | 7.6 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,606 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,304 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,598 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,452 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,049 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,756 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,911 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 26 | #4,169 | 14.9 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,762 | 16.5 |
| 1995 | 51 | #2,497 | 29.0 |
| 1994 | 27 | #3,936 | 15.1 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,239 | 19.3 |
| 1992 | 45 | #2,698 | 24.4 |
| 1991 | 51 | #2,457 | 27.2 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,705 | 22.6 |
| 1989 | 53 | #2,252 | 28.7 |
| 1988 | 46 | #2,377 | 25.8 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,966 | 32.8 |
| 1986 | 66 | #1,757 | 38.5 |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,509 | 47.1 |
| 1984 | 80 | #1,453 | 47.5 |
| 1983 | 99 | #1,260 | 59.3 |
| 1982 | 123 | #1,143 | 72.6 |
| 1981 | 89 | #1,387 | 53.4 |
| 1980 | 78 | #1,519 | 47.0 |
| 1979 | 94 | #1,326 | 58.6 |
| 1978 | 85 | #1,380 | 55.5 |
| 1977 | 102 | #1,201 | 66.5 |
| 1976 | 80 | #1,346 | 54.6 |
| 1975 | 51 | #1,816 | 35.0 |
| 1974 | 72 | #1,421 | 49.1 |
| 1973 | 77 | #1,317 | 52.8 |
| 1972 | 99 | #1,122 | 65.1 |
| 1971 | 98 | #1,173 | 58.9 |
| 1970 | 65 | #1,521 | 37.2 |
| 1969 | 55 | #1,617 | 32.6 |
| 1968 | 35 | #2,037 | 21.3 |
| 1967 | 40 | #1,863 | 24.2 |
| 1966 | 39 | #1,840 | 23.0 |
| 1965 | 30 | #2,174 | 17.0 |
| 1964 | 46 | #1,714 | 24.3 |
| 1963 | 35 | #1,993 | 18.2 |
| 1962 | 48 | #1,637 | 24.4 |
| 1961 | 40 | #1,819 | 19.8 |
| 1960 | 44 | #1,705 | 21.8 |
| 1959 | 44 | #1,656 | 21.7 |
| 1958 | 37 | #1,799 | 18.4 |
| 1957 | 39 | #1,733 | 19.1 |
| 1956 | 22 | #2,419 | 11.0 |
| 1955 | 24 | #2,242 | 12.3 |
| 1954 | 15 | #2,945 | 7.7 |
| 1953 | 12 | #3,358 | 6.4 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,612 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 13 | #3,011 | 7.2 |
| 1950 | 10 | #3,531 | 5.8 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,917 | 7.6 |
| 1948 | 14 | #2,761 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,336 | 6.2 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,320 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,247 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,267 | 4.5 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,504 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeni has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 74 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jeni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeni, and how old are they?
2,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 2,856 Americans ever recorded as Jeni. The median Jeni alive today is 47 years old; half are between 39 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 3,267 people named Jeni (3,245 women and girls, 22 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,693 born in the U.S. The Census count is 21% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jeni rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 400 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,030 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 945 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 229 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 35 |
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 Jeni born?
The states with the most babies named Jeni are California, Texas and Utah, with 56% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Utah is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 288 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 76 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Utah | 47 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| New York | 46 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 46 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 33 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Washington | 31 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Iowa | 22 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Wisconsin | 22 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Jeni with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jeni?
Jeni is a less common spelling of Jennie: SSA has recorded 2,856 Jeni and 127,660 Jennie since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 415,702 babies since 1880, Jeni is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 705 babies recorded by SSA was a Jeni (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 Jeni
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 Jeni and names like it
- Compare Jeni and JennieBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJeni peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeni since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Jeni.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jeni alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.