Jenilee
Jenilee was last recorded in 2012, when 5 babies were given it; 806 Americans have been recorded with it between 1980 and 2012 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenilee by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jenilee mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jenilee is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jenilee?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,035, in 2012; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
192 babies in 1982, the peak
Jenilee peaked in 1982, when 192 girls were given it, #818 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 5 | #18,035 | under 0.01 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,112 | under 0.01 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,859 | under 0.01 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,329 | under 0.01 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,951 | under 0.01 |
| 2003 | 5 | #16,862 | under 0.01 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,684 | 0.01 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,183 | under 0.01 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,373 | under 0.01 |
| 1998 | 7 | #11,655 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 7 | #11,350 | under 0.01 |
| 1996 | 8 | #9,952 | under 0.01 |
| 1995 | 12 | #7,240 | 0.01 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,819 | 0.01 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,040 | under 0.01 |
| 1992 | 11 | #7,728 | 0.01 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,619 | 0.01 |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,782 | under 0.01 |
| 1989 | 13 | #6,304 | 0.01 |
| 1988 | 29 | #3,334 | 0.02 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,869 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,919 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 93 | #1,385 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 56 | #1,892 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 85 | #1,393 | 0.05 |
| 1982 | 192 | #818 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 90 | #1,374 | 0.05 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,558 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenilee a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenilee has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jenilee: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenilee, and how old are they?
An estimated 780 Americans named Jenilee and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 42 years old and half are between 39 and 44. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 727 people named Jenilee (727 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 787 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 7 names spelled alike, given to 9,845 babies since 1880, Jenilee is the second most given (8.2% of them).
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 Jenilee
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 Jenilee and names like it
- Compare Jenilee and JenelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJenilee peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenilee since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Jenilee.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jenilee alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.