Jenice — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jenice

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,927 babies named Jenice between 1921 and 2021, spanning 101 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jenice currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2021. The name reached its historical peak in 1961, when 56 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jenice performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 318 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Jenice shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 125 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Illinois. In total, SSA state-level files list Jenice in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jenice 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 1,927 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.