Jennafer
Jennafer was last recorded in 2009, when 9 babies were given it; 1,080 Americans have been recorded with it between 1964 and 2009 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Jennafer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 32 and 42.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jennafer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jennafer?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,887, in 2009; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
81 babies in 1985, the peak
Jennafer peaked in 1985, when 81 girls were given it, #1,510 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | 9 | #11,887 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,151 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,559 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 6 | #15,989 | 3.2 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,458 | 5.4 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,245 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 19 | #6,168 | 10.4 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,514 | 6.7 |
| 2001 | 25 | #4,749 | 13.9 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,760 | 7.2 |
Every recorded year (43)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 23 | #4,786 | 13.0 |
| 1998 | 33 | #3,597 | 18.7 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,275 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 32 | #3,524 | 18.3 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,102 | 10.8 |
| 1994 | 41 | #2,899 | 23.0 |
| 1993 | 35 | #3,241 | 19.3 |
| 1992 | 54 | #2,407 | 29.3 |
| 1991 | 38 | #3,001 | 20.3 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,388 | 16.9 |
| 1989 | 39 | #2,828 | 21.2 |
| 1988 | 43 | #2,497 | 24.1 |
| 1987 | 57 | #1,968 | 32.8 |
| 1986 | 71 | #1,659 | 41.4 |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,510 | 47.1 |
| 1984 | 66 | #1,665 | 39.2 |
| 1983 | 32 | #2,741 | 19.2 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,823 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,057 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 23 | #3,550 | 13.9 |
| 1979 | 20 | #3,820 | 12.5 |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,341 | 10.4 |
| 1977 | 13 | #5,041 | 8.5 |
| 1976 | 19 | #3,584 | 13.0 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,012 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,106 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 18 | #3,534 | 12.3 |
| 1972 | 18 | #3,451 | 11.8 |
| 1971 | 8 | #6,241 | 4.8 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,566 | 5.1 |
| 1969 | 11 | #4,544 | 6.5 |
| 1968 | 7 | #5,869 | 4.3 |
| 1964 | 5 | #7,190 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jennafer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jennafer has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 43 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jennafer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jennafer, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,080 Americans ever recorded as Jennafer. The median Jennafer alive today is 38 years old; half are between 32 and 42.
The 2020 Census counted 981 people named Jennafer (981 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,055 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 181 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 661 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 199 |
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 Jennafer born?
The states with the most babies named Jennafer are California, Texas and New York, with 80% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 123 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Texas | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New York | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 11 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Wisconsin | 6 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Jennafer 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 1,513,540 babies since 1880, Jennafer is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 522 babies recorded by SSA was a Jennafer (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Jennafer
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 Jennafer and names like it
- Compare Jennafer and JenniferBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sJennafer peaked in 1985.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jennafer since 1910.
- The top names of 1985The year the most babies were named Jennafer.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Jennafer alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with JMost given first.