Jenine
Jenine was given to 6 girls in 2025, #13,942 among girls’ names; 2,263 Americans have been recorded with it since 1932 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,030 Americans named Jenine and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 52 years old and half are between 42 and 60.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenine by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jenine mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jenine is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jenine?
#13,942 among girls’ names, 2025
Jenine fell from #12,325 in 2015 to #13,942 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.7 per million.
87 babies in 1970, the peak
Jenine peaked in 1970, when 87 girls were given it, #1,265 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #13,942 | 3.7 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,229 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #16,617 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 9 | #11,259 | 5.1 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,325 | 4.5 |
| 2014 | 6 | #15,444 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,036 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,676 | 4.5 |
| 2009 | 5 | #18,554 | 2.7 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,113 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #16,357 | 3.1 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,201 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,293 | 4.9 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,952 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 18 | #6,417 | 9.9 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,014 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,452 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 6 | #13,914 | 3.3 |
| 1999 | 12 | #7,931 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,230 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,459 | 6.9 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,810 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,533 | 9.7 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,108 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,817 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 23 | #4,432 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 15 | #6,061 | 8.0 |
| 1990 | 26 | #3,941 | 13.7 |
| 1989 | 24 | #4,047 | 13.0 |
| 1988 | 35 | #2,939 | 19.7 |
| 1987 | 33 | #2,935 | 19.0 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,003 | 18.1 |
| 1985 | 37 | #2,616 | 21.5 |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,028 | 29.7 |
| 1983 | 38 | #2,443 | 22.7 |
| 1982 | 49 | #2,088 | 28.9 |
| 1981 | 57 | #1,895 | 34.2 |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,790 | 36.7 |
| 1979 | 58 | #1,840 | 36.1 |
| 1978 | 58 | #1,774 | 37.9 |
| 1977 | 47 | #2,037 | 30.7 |
| 1976 | 64 | #1,577 | 43.7 |
| 1975 | 75 | #1,410 | 51.4 |
| 1974 | 53 | #1,715 | 36.1 |
| 1973 | 59 | #1,578 | 40.5 |
| 1972 | 72 | #1,388 | 47.3 |
| 1971 | 86 | #1,283 | 51.7 |
| 1970 | 87 | #1,265 | 49.8 |
| 1969 | 59 | #1,551 | 35.0 |
| 1968 | 51 | #1,612 | 31.1 |
| 1967 | 50 | #1,602 | 30.3 |
| 1966 | 53 | #1,537 | 31.3 |
| 1965 | 60 | #1,429 | 34.0 |
| 1964 | 50 | #1,616 | 26.4 |
| 1963 | 38 | #1,903 | 19.7 |
| 1962 | 43 | #1,741 | 21.9 |
| 1961 | 46 | #1,681 | 22.8 |
| 1960 | 55 | #1,494 | 27.2 |
| 1959 | 42 | #1,705 | 20.8 |
| 1958 | 21 | #2,529 | 10.4 |
| 1957 | 22 | #2,442 | 10.8 |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,212 | 12.5 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,822 | 17.4 |
| 1954 | 25 | #2,143 | 12.9 |
| 1953 | 35 | #1,689 | 18.6 |
| 1952 | 26 | #1,993 | 14.0 |
| 1951 | 17 | #2,524 | 9.4 |
| 1950 | 11 | #3,310 | 6.4 |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,459 | 9.9 |
| 1948 | 11 | #3,231 | 6.5 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,146 | 4.5 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,523 | 5.7 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,004 | 7.7 |
| 1942 | 5 | #4,944 | 3.7 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,385 | 6.6 |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,593 | 6.4 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,060 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,911 | 5.8 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,518 | 4.8 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,029 | 5.7 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,729 | 10.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenine a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenine has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jenine: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenine, and how old are they?
2,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 90% of the 2,263 Americans ever recorded as Jenine. The median Jenine alive today is 52 years old; half are between 42 and 60.
The 2020 Census counted 2,113 people named Jenine (2,113 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,085 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 22 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 432 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 922 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 478 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 136 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 40 |
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 Jenine born?
The states with the most babies named Jenine are New York, California and Pennsylvania, with 85% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 345 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| California | 271 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 95 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 59 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Michigan | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jenine is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jenine is most over-represented in New York: since 1932 it was given 1.9 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 Jenine 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 600,126 babies since 1880, Jenine is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 714 babies (<1%), again the eighth 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 Jenine
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 Jenine and names like it
- Compare Jenine and JeanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJenine peaked in 1970.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenine since 1910.
- The top names of 1970The year the most babies were named Jenine.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jenine alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.