Jennefer
Jennefer was last recorded in 2010, when 5 babies were given it; 1,498 Americans have been recorded with it between 1950 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,420 Americans named Jennefer and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 36 and 52.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jennefer by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jennefer?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #18,209, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
61 babies in 1972, the peak
Jennefer peaked in 1972, when 61 girls were given it, #1,528 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | #18,209 | 2.8 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,300 | 3.2 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,235 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,221 | 3.7 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,621 | 3.8 |
| 2004 | 13 | #8,453 | 7.1 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,740 | 6.6 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,211 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,924 | 10.6 |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,565 | 11.0 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 19 | #5,518 | 10.7 |
| 1998 | 22 | #4,854 | 12.5 |
| 1997 | 25 | #4,276 | 14.4 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,366 | 13.7 |
| 1995 | 25 | #4,135 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,470 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 28 | #3,818 | 15.5 |
| 1992 | 29 | #3,714 | 15.7 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,558 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 40 | #2,863 | 21.1 |
| 1989 | 30 | #3,424 | 16.3 |
| 1988 | 25 | #3,742 | 14.0 |
| 1987 | 59 | #1,926 | 33.9 |
| 1986 | 47 | #2,205 | 27.4 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,372 | 24.4 |
| 1984 | 52 | #1,972 | 30.9 |
| 1983 | 50 | #2,034 | 29.9 |
| 1982 | 43 | #2,302 | 25.4 |
| 1981 | 48 | #2,132 | 28.8 |
| 1980 | 40 | #2,404 | 24.1 |
| 1979 | 41 | #2,318 | 25.5 |
| 1978 | 51 | #1,924 | 33.3 |
| 1977 | 57 | #1,784 | 37.2 |
| 1976 | 54 | #1,756 | 36.9 |
| 1975 | 56 | #1,694 | 38.4 |
| 1974 | 59 | #1,604 | 40.2 |
| 1973 | 54 | #1,672 | 37.0 |
| 1972 | 61 | #1,528 | 40.1 |
| 1971 | 52 | #1,740 | 31.3 |
| 1970 | 38 | #2,137 | 21.7 |
| 1969 | 26 | #2,610 | 15.4 |
| 1968 | 16 | #3,380 | 9.8 |
| 1967 | 12 | #3,932 | 7.3 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,303 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 13 | #3,629 | 7.4 |
| 1964 | 11 | #4,202 | 5.8 |
| 1963 | 12 | #3,885 | 6.2 |
| 1962 | 8 | #5,043 | 4.1 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,112 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 6 | #5,975 | 3.0 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,787 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,700 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,694 | 2.9 |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,115 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,047 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 5 | #5,925 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,568 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,500 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jennefer a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jennefer has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jennefer: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jennefer, and how old are they?
1,420 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 1,498 Americans ever recorded as Jennefer. The median Jennefer alive today is 45 years old; half are between 36 and 52.
The 2020 Census counted 1,762 people named Jennefer (1,762 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,442 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 79 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 599 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 561 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 181 |
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 Jennefer born?
The states with the most babies named Jennefer are California, New York and Texas, with 89% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 271 | not ranked | 1.5× |
| New York | 84 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 44 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 16 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 7 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Missouri | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Jennefer is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Jennefer is most over-represented in California: since 1950 it was given 1.5 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 Jennefer 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, Jennefer is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 522 babies recorded by SSA was a Jennefer (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 Jennefer
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 Jennefer and names like it
- Compare Jennefer and JenniferBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJennefer peaked in 1972.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jennefer since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Jennefer.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jennefer alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.