Jenin
Jenin was given to 30 girls in 2025, #4,601 among girls’ names; 264 Americans have been recorded with it since 2002 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jenin?
#4,601 among girls’ names, 2025
Jenin rose from #17,640 in 2015 to #4,601 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 18.7 per million.
46 babies in 2002, the peak
Jenin peaked in 2002, when 46 girls were given it, #3,111 among girls’ names. The 30 births of 2025 are 65% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 30 | #4,601 | 18.7 |
| 2024 | 33 | #4,327 | 20.4 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,068 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,430 | 9.1 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,762 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,616 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 5 | #16,719 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,089 | 5.2 |
| 2015 | 5 | #17,640 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,416 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (18)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 7 | #14,142 | 4.0 |
| 2009 | 7 | #14,342 | 3.8 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,175 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 8 | #12,887 | 4.2 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,740 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 16 | #7,216 | 8.7 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,859 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 46 | #3,111 | 25.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenin has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 18 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jenin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenin, and how old are they?
An estimated 262 Americans named Jenin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 3 and 23. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 230 people named Jenin (212 women and girls, 18 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 162 born in the U.S. The Census count is 42% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jenin rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
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 8 names spelled alike, given to 486,939 babies since 1880, Jenin is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 30 of their 311 babies (9.6%), the second most given that year.
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 Jenin
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 Jenin and names like it
- Compare Jenin and JeanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJenin peaked in 2002.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenin since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Jenin.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Jenin alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with JMost given first.