Girls' name · since 1988
Jennay
Since 1988, U.S. Social Security records show 51 babies named Jennay, peaking in 1990. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- 51
- total births
- 1988–2010
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 37%
- born in that decade
Jennay is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 51 have been recorded since 1988.
Jennay has 51 recorded births among girls since 1988, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1988 to 2010.
- 51 total births
- 1988–2010 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 37% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jennay's 51 recorded births place it above 52% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jennay's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Jennay's full recorded timeline at 1999, 47% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 53% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1999, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1990 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Jennay popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1988–2010
- Peak year (1990)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 23 years of records
Jennay by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Jennay's strongest decade.
19 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 37% of all-time use.
Jennay births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s
1980s
13 births
- 1990s
1990s
19 births
- 2000s
2000s
11 births
- 2010s
2010s
8 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 19 births (37% of all-time use).
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- Jennay's usage has stayed within range of its 1990s decade-level peak (19 total births) through the 2010s (8) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1988–2010 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jennay: Baby Name Since 1988 - 51 Births, Peak 1990." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jennay. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Jennay draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.