Jenice
Jenice was last recorded in 2021, when 5 babies were given it; 1,927 Americans have been recorded with it between 1921 and 2021 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,680 Americans named Jenice and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 48 years old and half are between 34 and 64.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenice by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jenice?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,303, in 2021; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
56 babies in 1961, the peak
Jenice peaked in 1961, when 56 girls were given it, #1,503 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | 5 | #16,303 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,720 | 4.3 |
| 2018 | 9 | #10,927 | 5.3 |
| 2017 | 5 | #16,988 | 2.9 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,324 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 9 | #11,385 | 5.0 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,778 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 11 | #10,008 | 6.2 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,715 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,470 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 18 | #7,179 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,294 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 20 | #6,671 | 10.4 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,646 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 17 | #6,969 | 9.2 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,451 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,203 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 30 | #4,217 | 16.7 |
| 2001 | 16 | #6,767 | 8.9 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,333 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,638 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,024 | 11.9 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,721 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 22 | #4,655 | 12.5 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,746 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 34 | #3,322 | 19.0 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,240 | 19.3 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,292 | 18.4 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,557 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,387 | 16.9 |
| 1989 | 32 | #3,279 | 17.4 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,753 | 21.3 |
| 1987 | 32 | #2,985 | 18.4 |
| 1986 | 33 | #2,873 | 19.2 |
| 1985 | 30 | #3,035 | 17.4 |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,360 | 14.8 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,009 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 35 | #2,662 | 20.7 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,876 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,897 | 18.7 |
| 1979 | 26 | #3,187 | 16.2 |
| 1978 | 29 | #2,815 | 18.9 |
| 1977 | 27 | #2,937 | 17.6 |
| 1976 | 26 | #2,894 | 17.7 |
| 1975 | 21 | #3,330 | 14.4 |
| 1974 | 43 | #1,974 | 29.3 |
| 1973 | 32 | #2,374 | 21.9 |
| 1972 | 20 | #3,216 | 13.1 |
| 1971 | 32 | #2,394 | 19.2 |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,327 | 18.9 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,543 | 16.0 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,573 | 14.6 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,236 | 17.6 |
| 1966 | 34 | #1,993 | 20.1 |
| 1965 | 18 | #2,976 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,435 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 29 | #2,225 | 15.0 |
| 1962 | 41 | #1,796 | 20.8 |
| 1961 | 56 | #1,503 | 27.7 |
| 1960 | 33 | #1,996 | 16.3 |
| 1959 | 48 | #1,573 | 23.7 |
| 1958 | 33 | #1,922 | 16.4 |
| 1957 | 37 | #1,797 | 18.1 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,070 | 13.9 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,923 | 15.9 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,633 | 20.1 |
| 1953 | 38 | #1,595 | 20.2 |
| 1952 | 32 | #1,758 | 17.3 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,215 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,309 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,736 | 5.3 |
| 1948 | 10 | #3,454 | 5.9 |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,821 | 7.9 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,321 | 6.4 |
| 1945 | 16 | #2,187 | 12.2 |
| 1944 | 14 | #2,452 | 10.5 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,980 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,943 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,171 | 5.0 |
| 1940 | 15 | #2,152 | 13.1 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,349 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 9 | #3,038 | 8.2 |
| 1937 | 11 | #2,627 | 10.3 |
| 1936 | 9 | #2,966 | 8.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,600 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,571 | 6.9 |
| 1932 | 5 | #4,716 | 4.7 |
| 1931 | 6 | #4,104 | 5.6 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,540 | 5.0 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,760 | 4.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenice a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenice has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 90 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jenice: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenice, and how old are they?
1,680 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 1,927 Americans ever recorded as Jenice. The median Jenice alive today is 48 years old; half are between 34 and 64.
The 2020 Census counted 1,838 people named Jenice (1,833 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,738 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 49 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 437 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 420 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 470 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 246 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 56 |
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 Jenice born?
The states with the most babies named Jenice are California, New York and Illinois, with 87% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 125 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 93 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Louisiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Jenice with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 9,306 babies since 1880, Jenice is the third most given (21% of them). In 2025 none of their 36 babies recorded by SSA was a Jenice (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 Jenice
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 Jenice and names like it
- Compare Jenice and JenicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sJenice peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenice since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Jenice.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jenice alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.