Jenika
Jenika was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,349 among girls’ names; 914 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jenika?
#11,349 among girls’ names, 2025
Jenika fell from #5,735 in 2015 to #11,349 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.9 to 5.0 per million.
31 babies in 2013, the peak
Jenika peaked in 2013, when 31 girls were given it, #4,576 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 26% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,349 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,264 | 11.7 |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,421 | 9.3 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,429 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,517 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,364 | 9.3 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,372 | 6.6 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,639 | 10.6 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,508 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 18 | #6,757 | 10.2 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #5,735 | 12.9 |
| 2014 | 25 | #5,372 | 14.0 |
| 2013 | 31 | #4,576 | 17.7 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,396 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,586 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 16 | #7,686 | 9.0 |
| 2009 | 23 | #5,979 | 12.5 |
| 2008 | 28 | #5,199 | 14.8 |
| 2007 | 17 | #7,542 | 8.8 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,456 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 19 | #6,390 | 10.3 |
| 2004 | 22 | #5,643 | 12.0 |
| 2003 | 24 | #5,151 | 13.1 |
| 2002 | 19 | #5,987 | 10.6 |
| 2001 | 24 | #4,896 | 13.3 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,062 | 9.9 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,757 | 10.1 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,229 | 11.3 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,298 | 10.9 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,797 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,083 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,554 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,514 | 9.4 |
| 1992 | 18 | #5,355 | 9.8 |
| 1991 | 28 | #3,757 | 14.9 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,375 | 9.0 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,715 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,371 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 20 | #4,177 | 11.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,562 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,646 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,222 | 10.7 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,606 | 13.2 |
| 1982 | 13 | #5,333 | 7.7 |
| 1981 | 21 | #3,783 | 12.6 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,017 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,215 | 8.1 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,523 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,756 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,875 | 3.4 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,393 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 9 | #5,945 | 6.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jenika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenika, and how old are they?
An estimated 897 Americans named Jenika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 13 and 37. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 748 people named Jenika (745 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 815 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 7,706 babies since 1880, Jenika is the fourth most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 45 babies (18%), again the fourth 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 Jenika
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 Jenika and names like it
- Compare Jenika and JenicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJenika peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenika since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Jenika.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jenika alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.