Jenise — #9630 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Jenise

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,785 babies named Jenise between 1950 and 2024, spanning 75 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jenise currently holds the #9630 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1982, when 70 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jenise performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 582 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Jenise shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 303 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Jenise in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jenise in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 2,785 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.