Jenifer
Jenifer was given to 15 girls in 2025, #7,280 among girls’ names; 25,573 Americans have been recorded with it since 1933 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 23,900 Americans named Jenifer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 35 and 54.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenifer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jenifer mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jenifer is “a female given name from Cornish, a less common form of Jennifer.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jenifer?
#7,280 among girls’ names, 2025
Jenifer fell from #4,534 in 2015 to #7,280 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.4 to 9.3 per million.
923 babies in 1974, the peak
Jenifer peaked in 1974, when 923 girls were given it, #278 among girls’ names. The 15 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #7,280 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,695 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,694 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,428 | 0.01 |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,837 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,363 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,059 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,066 | 0.02 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,231 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,878 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 31 | #4,534 | 0.02 |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,139 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,424 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,463 | 0.04 |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,464 | 0.04 |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,725 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 142 | #1,586 | 0.08 |
| 2008 | 227 | #1,133 | 0.12 |
| 2007 | 250 | #1,049 | 0.13 |
| 2006 | 259 | #1,002 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 298 | #849 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 308 | #815 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 353 | #725 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 354 | #707 | 0.20 |
| 2001 | 311 | #767 | 0.17 |
| 2000 | 326 | #713 | 0.18 |
| 1999 | 355 | #650 | 0.20 |
| 1998 | 279 | #773 | 0.16 |
| 1997 | 299 | #720 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 242 | #828 | 0.14 |
| 1995 | 291 | #712 | 0.17 |
| 1994 | 288 | #721 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 262 | #783 | 0.14 |
| 1992 | 328 | #671 | 0.18 |
| 1991 | 359 | #626 | 0.19 |
| 1990 | 358 | #622 | 0.19 |
| 1989 | 357 | #600 | 0.19 |
| 1988 | 381 | #560 | 0.21 |
| 1987 | 447 | #481 | 0.26 |
| 1986 | 455 | #471 | 0.27 |
| 1985 | 606 | #374 | 0.35 |
| 1984 | 607 | #375 | 0.36 |
| 1983 | 647 | #349 | 0.39 |
| 1982 | 723 | #334 | 0.43 |
| 1981 | 706 | #336 | 0.42 |
| 1980 | 724 | #333 | 0.44 |
| 1979 | 714 | #327 | 0.44 |
| 1978 | 763 | #306 | 0.50 |
| 1977 | 814 | #292 | 0.53 |
| 1976 | 773 | #296 | 0.53 |
| 1975 | 838 | #287 | 0.57 |
| 1974 | 923 | #278 | 0.63 |
| 1973 | 913 | #271 | 0.63 |
| 1972 | 913 | #282 | 0.60 |
| 1971 | 782 | #334 | 0.47 |
| 1970 | 736 | #347 | 0.42 |
| 1969 | 572 | #395 | 0.34 |
| 1968 | 487 | #430 | 0.30 |
| 1967 | 305 | #537 | 0.18 |
| 1966 | 331 | #520 | 0.20 |
| 1965 | 341 | #516 | 0.19 |
| 1964 | 326 | #548 | 0.17 |
| 1963 | 294 | #573 | 0.15 |
| 1962 | 308 | #557 | 0.16 |
| 1961 | 287 | #593 | 0.14 |
| 1960 | 240 | #656 | 0.12 |
| 1959 | 208 | #695 | 0.10 |
| 1958 | 234 | #643 | 0.12 |
| 1957 | 162 | #793 | 0.08 |
| 1956 | 147 | #818 | 0.07 |
| 1955 | 106 | #960 | 0.05 |
| 1954 | 106 | #936 | 0.05 |
| 1953 | 118 | #864 | 0.06 |
| 1952 | 87 | #1,008 | 0.05 |
| 1951 | 88 | #998 | 0.05 |
| 1950 | 88 | #962 | 0.05 |
| 1949 | 71 | #1,065 | 0.04 |
| 1948 | 68 | #1,075 | 0.04 |
| 1947 | 50 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1946 | 61 | #1,092 | 0.04 |
| 1945 | 46 | #1,161 | 0.04 |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,632 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,032 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,573 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,047 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,352 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,248 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,059 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,012 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,615 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,954 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenifer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenifer has been given almost only to girls: 22 boys in 91 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jenifer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenifer, and how old are they?
23,900 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 25,573 Americans ever recorded as Jenifer. The median Jenifer alive today is 47 years old; half are between 35 and 54.
The 2020 Census counted 27,430 people named Jenifer (27,381 women and girls, 49 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 24,288 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 89 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,490 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 10,200 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 6,860 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 3,980 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 295 |
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 Jenifer born?
The states with the most babies named Jenifer are California, Texas and New York, with 32% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 3,603 | not ranked | 1.2× |
| Texas | 1,996 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 1,400 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 1,073 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 1,000 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 973 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 931 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 900 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 678 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 602 | not ranked | 0.9× |
Where Jenifer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jenifer is most over-represented in Utah: since 1933 it was given 1.8 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Jenifer 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 1,513,540 babies since 1880, Jenifer is the second most given (1.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 15 of their 522 babies (2.9%), again the second 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 Jenifer
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 Jenifer and names like it
- Compare Jenifer and JenniferBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJenifer peaked in 1974.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenifer since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Jenifer.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jenifer alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.