Jenise
Jenise was given to 10 girls in 2025, #9,741 among girls’ names; 2,795 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,610 Americans named Jenise and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 43 years old and half are between 31 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenise by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jenise?
#9,741 among girls’ names, 2025
Jenise fell from #8,663 in 2015 to #9,741 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.3 to 6.2 per million.
70 babies in 1982, the peak
Jenise peaked in 1982, when 70 girls were given it, #1,646 among girls’ names. The 10 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #9,741 | 6.2 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,855 | 6.2 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,184 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 10 | #10,006 | 6.1 |
| 2021 | 6 | #14,239 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,199 | 6.8 |
| 2019 | 7 | #13,031 | 4.2 |
| 2018 | 20 | #6,128 | 11.8 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,927 | 9.8 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,704 | 6.2 |
Every recorded year (76)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 13 | #8,663 | 7.3 |
| 2014 | 20 | #6,302 | 11.2 |
| 2013 | 19 | #6,576 | 10.8 |
| 2012 | 17 | #7,272 | 9.7 |
| 2011 | 20 | #6,427 | 11.4 |
| 2010 | 28 | #5,025 | 15.8 |
| 2009 | 24 | #5,779 | 13.1 |
| 2008 | 33 | #4,583 | 17.5 |
| 2007 | 33 | #4,511 | 17.2 |
| 2006 | 21 | #6,224 | 11.0 |
| 2005 | 37 | #3,903 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 30 | #4,539 | 16.3 |
| 2003 | 26 | #4,860 | 14.2 |
| 2002 | 32 | #4,022 | 17.8 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,817 | 18.9 |
| 2000 | 22 | #5,218 | 12.1 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,502 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 36 | #3,375 | 20.4 |
| 1997 | 39 | #3,058 | 22.4 |
| 1996 | 41 | #2,916 | 23.4 |
| 1995 | 41 | #2,894 | 23.3 |
| 1994 | 40 | #2,952 | 22.4 |
| 1993 | 52 | #2,423 | 28.7 |
| 1992 | 57 | #2,297 | 30.9 |
| 1991 | 49 | #2,521 | 26.1 |
| 1990 | 65 | #2,054 | 34.2 |
| 1989 | 48 | #2,419 | 26.0 |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,055 | 32.0 |
| 1987 | 53 | #2,076 | 30.5 |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,204 | 27.4 |
| 1985 | 70 | #1,668 | 40.7 |
| 1984 | 58 | #1,845 | 34.4 |
| 1983 | 53 | #1,937 | 31.7 |
| 1982 | 70 | #1,646 | 41.3 |
| 1981 | 65 | #1,742 | 39.0 |
| 1980 | 61 | #1,791 | 36.7 |
| 1979 | 40 | #2,355 | 24.9 |
| 1978 | 48 | #1,997 | 31.3 |
| 1977 | 45 | #2,101 | 29.4 |
| 1976 | 44 | #2,008 | 30.0 |
| 1975 | 47 | #1,921 | 32.2 |
| 1974 | 47 | #1,861 | 32.0 |
| 1973 | 34 | #2,282 | 23.3 |
| 1972 | 56 | #1,613 | 36.8 |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,811 | 29.5 |
| 1970 | 46 | #1,890 | 26.3 |
| 1969 | 48 | #1,765 | 28.5 |
| 1968 | 46 | #1,735 | 28.0 |
| 1967 | 48 | #1,648 | 29.1 |
| 1966 | 36 | #1,934 | 21.3 |
| 1965 | 55 | #1,505 | 31.2 |
| 1964 | 45 | #1,737 | 23.7 |
| 1963 | 52 | #1,574 | 27.0 |
| 1962 | 49 | #1,614 | 24.9 |
| 1961 | 56 | #1,504 | 27.7 |
| 1960 | 57 | #1,459 | 28.2 |
| 1959 | 48 | #1,574 | 23.7 |
| 1958 | 32 | #1,959 | 15.9 |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,556 | 23.5 |
| 1956 | 30 | #1,982 | 14.9 |
| 1955 | 40 | #1,624 | 20.5 |
| 1954 | 34 | #1,786 | 17.5 |
| 1953 | 26 | #2,047 | 13.8 |
| 1952 | 17 | #2,613 | 9.2 |
| 1951 | 21 | #2,216 | 11.7 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,499 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenise a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenise has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 76 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jenise: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenise, and how old are they?
2,610 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 2,795 Americans ever recorded as Jenise. The median Jenise alive today is 43 years old; half are between 31 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 2,477 people named Jenise (2,475 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,613 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 463 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 696 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 841 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 452 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 159 |
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 Jenise born?
The states with the most babies named Jenise are California, New York and Texas, with 74% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 303 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 198 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 87 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 73 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 48 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 41 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 16 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Virginia | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Jenise 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 3,735 babies since 1880, Jenise is the most given (75% 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 Jenise
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 Jenise and names like it
- Compare Jenise and JenissaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJenise peaked in 1982.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenise since 1910.
- The top names of 1982The year the most babies were named Jenise.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jenise alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.