Jeniffer
Jeniffer was last recorded in 2020, when 9 babies were given it; 3,656 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 2020 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,530 Americans named Jeniffer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 37 years old and half are between 27 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jeniffer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jeniffer?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #10,630, in 2020; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
118 babies in 1999, the peak
Jeniffer peaked in 1999, when 118 girls were given it, #1,463 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 | 9 | #10,630 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,615 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 6 | #14,902 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,242 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,629 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,494 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,578 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,271 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,585 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 20 | #6,483 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 35 | #4,311 | 19.1 |
| 2008 | 51 | #3,289 | 27.0 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,679 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 62 | #2,829 | 32.6 |
| 2005 | 68 | #2,536 | 36.8 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,374 | 39.2 |
| 2003 | 78 | #2,210 | 42.7 |
| 2002 | 105 | #1,736 | 58.4 |
| 2001 | 76 | #2,155 | 42.2 |
| 2000 | 114 | #1,561 | 62.8 |
| 1999 | 118 | #1,463 | 66.5 |
| 1998 | 89 | #1,765 | 50.4 |
| 1997 | 102 | #1,573 | 58.6 |
| 1996 | 103 | #1,544 | 58.8 |
| 1995 | 86 | #1,704 | 48.9 |
| 1994 | 100 | #1,546 | 56.0 |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,709 | 48.1 |
| 1992 | 86 | #1,730 | 46.6 |
| 1991 | 109 | #1,452 | 58.1 |
| 1990 | 92 | #1,621 | 48.5 |
| 1989 | 79 | #1,718 | 42.9 |
| 1988 | 86 | #1,543 | 48.3 |
| 1987 | 86 | #1,502 | 49.5 |
| 1986 | 102 | #1,308 | 59.5 |
| 1985 | 87 | #1,439 | 50.6 |
| 1984 | 97 | #1,288 | 57.6 |
| 1983 | 100 | #1,254 | 59.9 |
| 1982 | 74 | #1,590 | 43.7 |
| 1981 | 71 | #1,632 | 42.6 |
| 1980 | 76 | #1,546 | 45.8 |
| 1979 | 89 | #1,382 | 55.4 |
| 1978 | 73 | #1,526 | 47.7 |
| 1977 | 89 | #1,303 | 58.1 |
| 1976 | 84 | #1,301 | 57.3 |
| 1975 | 85 | #1,303 | 58.3 |
| 1974 | 82 | #1,304 | 55.9 |
| 1973 | 77 | #1,318 | 52.8 |
| 1972 | 81 | #1,266 | 53.2 |
| 1971 | 64 | #1,537 | 38.5 |
| 1970 | 61 | #1,574 | 34.9 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,151 | 20.7 |
| 1968 | 30 | #2,219 | 18.3 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,587 | 13.9 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,272 | 16.5 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,632 | 12.5 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,296 | 8.4 |
| 1963 | 23 | #2,577 | 11.9 |
| 1962 | 11 | #4,112 | 5.6 |
| 1961 | 14 | #3,520 | 6.9 |
| 1960 | 5 | #6,756 | 2.5 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,907 | 5.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,112 | 2.6 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,667 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jeniffer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jeniffer has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 63 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jeniffer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jeniffer, and how old are they?
3,530 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,656 Americans ever recorded as Jeniffer. The median Jeniffer alive today is 37 years old; half are between 27 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 5,690 people named Jeniffer (5,680 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,554 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 76 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 935 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,410 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,050 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 55 |
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 Jeniffer born?
The states with the most babies named Jeniffer are California, Texas and New York, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 739 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Texas | 443 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| New York | 353 | not ranked | 1.4× |
| Florida | 239 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New Jersey | 71 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 70 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 37 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 32 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 29 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Arizona | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Jeniffer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jeniffer is most over-represented in California: since 1947 it was given 1.6 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 Jeniffer 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 Jeniffer?
Jeniffer is a less common spelling of Jennifer: SSA has recorded 3,656 Jeniffer and 1,476,540 Jennifer since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,513,540 babies since 1880, Jeniffer is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 522 babies recorded by SSA was a Jeniffer (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 Jeniffer
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 Jeniffer and names like it
- Compare Jeniffer and JenniferBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sJeniffer peaked in 1999.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jeniffer since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Jeniffer.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jeniffer alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.