Jennah
Jennah was given to 32 girls in 2025, #4,400 among girls’ names; 3,115 Americans have been recorded with it since 1974 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,070 Americans named Jennah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 14 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jennah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jennah mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jennah is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jennah?
#4,400 among girls’ names, 2025
Jennah fell from #2,178 in 2015 to #4,400 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 48.7 to 19.9 per million.
135 babies in 2002, the peak
Jennah peaked in 2002, when 135 girls were given it, #1,419 among girls’ names. The 32 births of 2025 are 24% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 32 | #4,400 | 19.9 |
| 2024 | 28 | #4,820 | 17.3 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,493 | 28.0 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,387 | 28.7 |
| 2021 | 54 | #3,049 | 32.9 |
| 2020 | 47 | #3,308 | 29.1 |
| 2019 | 56 | #2,942 | 33.4 |
| 2018 | 51 | #3,180 | 30.0 |
| 2017 | 52 | #3,114 | 30.1 |
| 2016 | 77 | #2,421 | 43.5 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 87 | #2,178 | 48.7 |
| 2014 | 88 | #2,164 | 49.3 |
| 2013 | 93 | #2,074 | 53.0 |
| 2012 | 112 | #1,815 | 63.6 |
| 2011 | 81 | #2,308 | 46.0 |
| 2010 | 105 | #1,916 | 59.1 |
| 2009 | 102 | #2,023 | 55.5 |
| 2008 | 108 | #1,952 | 57.1 |
| 2007 | 88 | #2,234 | 45.8 |
| 2006 | 105 | #1,925 | 55.2 |
| 2005 | 92 | #2,039 | 49.8 |
| 2004 | 85 | #2,119 | 46.3 |
| 2003 | 108 | #1,747 | 59.1 |
| 2002 | 135 | #1,419 | 75.1 |
| 2001 | 113 | #1,621 | 62.8 |
| 2000 | 105 | #1,679 | 57.8 |
| 1999 | 118 | #1,464 | 66.5 |
| 1998 | 94 | #1,692 | 53.2 |
| 1997 | 77 | #1,905 | 44.2 |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,109 | 37.1 |
| 1995 | 75 | #1,868 | 42.6 |
| 1994 | 63 | #2,144 | 35.3 |
| 1993 | 53 | #2,392 | 29.3 |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,525 | 27.1 |
| 1991 | 55 | #2,323 | 29.3 |
| 1990 | 43 | #2,706 | 22.6 |
| 1989 | 51 | #2,311 | 27.7 |
| 1988 | 64 | #1,917 | 35.9 |
| 1987 | 30 | #3,126 | 17.3 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,802 | 19.8 |
| 1985 | 41 | #2,413 | 23.8 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,012 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 11 | #5,964 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,109 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,519 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,484 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,391 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 7 | #7,971 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,326 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,553 | 4.1 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,295 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jennah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jennah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jennah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jennah, and how old are they?
3,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 3,115 Americans ever recorded as Jennah. The median Jennah alive today is 21 years old; half are between 14 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 2,513 people named Jennah (2,506 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,842 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 45 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 666 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,610 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 752 |
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 Jennah born?
The states with the most babies named Jennah are California, Pennsylvania and New York, with 52% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 312 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 231 | not ranked | 1.9× |
| New York | 188 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 110 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 109 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 105 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 103 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 89 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Ohio | 76 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 30 | not ranked | 0.4× |
Where Jennah is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jennah is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1974 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 Jennah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Jennah?
Jennah is a less common spelling of Jenna: SSA has recorded 3,115 Jennah and 148,842 Jenna since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 407,694 babies since 1880, Jennah is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 32 of their 735 babies (4.4%), the fourth 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 Jennah
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 Jennah and names like it
- Compare Jennah and JennaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sJennah peaked in 2002.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jennah since 1910.
- The top names of 2002The year the most babies were named Jennah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jennah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.