Jenna
Jenna was given to 418 girls in 2025, #679 among girls’ names; 148,842 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 146,000 Americans named Jenna and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 22 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenna by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jenna mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jenna is “a female given name, variant of Jenny.”
A Cornish name, usually as a diminutive form of Jennifer. Doublet of Ivanka, Jan, Janelle, Janet, Janey, Janine, Jeanette, Jeanie, Jeannette, Jeannine, Jen, Jenny, Jessie, Jo, Jody, Juanita, Shanae, Sinead, and Vanna when based on Jenny’s other derivations.
/ˈd͡ʒɛnə/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jenna?
#679 among girls’ names, 2025
Jenna fell from #298 in 2015 to #679 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.61 to 0.26 per 1,000.
6,454 babies in 1985, the peak
Jenna peaked in 1985, when 6,454 babies were given it (6,436 girls, #50 among girls’ names). The 418 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 418 | #679 | 0.26 |
| 2024 | 418 | #682 | 0.26 |
| 2023 | 472 | #630 | 0.29 |
| 2022 | 463 | #636 | 0.28 |
| 2021 | 515 | #586 | 0.31 |
| 2020 | 546 | #548 | 0.34 |
| 2019 | 709 | #442 | 0.42 |
| 2018 | 736 | #430 | 0.43 |
| 2017 | 811 | #386 | 0.47 |
| 2016 | 892 | #365 | 0.50 |
Every recorded year (109)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 1,089 | #298 | 0.61 |
| 2014 | 1,239 | #264 | 0.69 |
| 2013 | 1,417 | #228 | 0.81 |
| 2012 | 1,526 | #204 | 0.87 |
| 2011 | 1,841 | #170 | 1.0 |
| 2010 | 2,225 | #141 | 1.3 |
| 2009 | 2,635 | #121 | 1.4 |
| 2008 | 3,241 | #108 | 1.7 |
| 2007 | 3,304 | #103 | 1.7 |
| 2006 | 3,941 | #88 | 2.1 |
| 2005 | 4,796 | #62 | 2.6 |
| 2004 | 5,175 | #56 | 2.8 |
| 2003 | 5,352 | #55 | 2.9 |
| 2002 | 5,664 | #47 | 3.2 |
| 2001 | 6,143 | #45 | 3.4 |
| 2000 | 5,045 | #63 | 2.8 |
| 1999 | 5,043 | #61 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 4,866 | #65 | 2.8 |
| 1997 | 4,422 | #76 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 4,288 | #83 | 2.4 |
| 1995 | 4,254 | #84 | 2.4 |
| 1994 | 4,594 | #80 | 2.6 |
| 1993 | 4,882 | #70 | 2.7 |
| 1992 | 5,091 | #67 | 2.8 |
| 1991 | 4,460 | #80 | 2.4 |
| 1990 | 3,956 | #81 | 2.1 |
| 1989 | 4,339 | #71 | 2.4 |
| 1988 | 4,607 | #66 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 5,305 | #57 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 5,416 | #55 | 3.2 |
| 1985 | 6,436 | #50 | 3.7 |
| 1984 | 5,882 | #54 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 1,168 | #215 | 0.70 |
| 1982 | 1,012 | #247 | 0.60 |
| 1981 | 1,361 | #197 | 0.82 |
| 1980 | 1,075 | #238 | 0.65 |
| 1979 | 621 | #364 | 0.39 |
| 1978 | 463 | #431 | 0.30 |
| 1977 | 531 | #395 | 0.35 |
| 1976 | 484 | #417 | 0.33 |
| 1975 | 501 | #405 | 0.34 |
| 1974 | 469 | #418 | 0.32 |
| 1973 | 591 | #359 | 0.41 |
| 1972 | 304 | #550 | 0.20 |
| 1971 | 152 | #881 | 0.09 |
| 1970 | 108 | #1,096 | 0.06 |
| 1969 | 114 | #1,020 | 0.07 |
| 1968 | 68 | #1,354 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 55 | #1,515 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 60 | #1,420 | 0.04 |
| 1965 | 55 | #1,506 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 60 | #1,466 | 0.03 |
| 1963 | 56 | #1,497 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 63 | #1,401 | 0.03 |
| 1961 | 55 | #1,524 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 32 | #2,024 | 0.02 |
| 1959 | 39 | #1,772 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,410 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 21 | #2,516 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 28 | #2,071 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 31 | #1,924 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 28 | #1,998 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,798 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 21 | #2,292 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,151 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 21 | #2,154 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 22 | #2,091 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 18 | #2,369 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 29 | #1,801 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 17 | #2,351 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 13 | #2,526 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,029 | 0.01 |
| 1943 | 16 | #2,296 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 13 | #2,591 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,754 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 10 | #2,838 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,249 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,979 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 14 | #2,250 | 0.01 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,715 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 10 | #2,823 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 13 | #2,358 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 22 | #1,631 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 17 | #1,994 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 24 | #1,567 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,493 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,030 | 0.01 |
| 1928 | 9 | #3,311 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,158 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,360 | under 0.01 |
| 1924 | 9 | #3,510 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,662 | under 0.01 |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,711 | under 0.01 |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,488 | under 0.01 |
| 1920 | 10 | #3,219 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,504 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,549 | 0.01 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,210 | 0.01 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,592 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenna a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenna has been given almost only to girls: 255 boys in 109 years of records.
Girls and boys named Jenna: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenna, and how old are they?
146,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 148,842 Americans ever recorded as Jenna. The median Jenna alive today is 29 years old; half are between 22 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 140,773 people named Jenna (140,609 women and girls, 164 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 143,669 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 71 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 493 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 5,330 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 65,400 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 64,600 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 9,660 |
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 Jenna born?
The states with the most babies named Jenna are California, New York and Pennsylvania, with 24% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 14,154 | #742 | 0.7× |
| New York | 11,624 | #808 | 1.2× |
| Pennsylvania | 8,949 | #630 | 1.4× |
| Ohio | 8,170 | #492 | 1.3× |
| Texas | 7,625 | #733 | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 7,250 | #725 | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 7,228 | #287 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 6,315 | #933 | 0.9× |
| New Jersey | 5,698 | #641 | 1.3× |
| Minnesota | 4,656 | #521 | 1.6× |
Where Jenna is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jenna is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1915 it was given 1.6 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 Jenna 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 568,188 babies since 1880, Jenna is the second most given (26% of them). In 2025 it was given to 418 of their 733 babies (57%), the 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 Jenna
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 Jenna and names like it
- Compare Jenna and JeanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJenna peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenna since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Jenna.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jenna alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.