Girls' name · since 1944
Jenness
80 babies named Jenness in U.S. Social Security records since 1944, with the highest year being 1950. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- #29,611 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 80
- born since 1944
- 1970s
- peak decade
Jenness sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 80 recorded since 1944.
Jenness has 80 recorded births among girls since 1944, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1944 to 1984.
- #29,611 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 80 born since 1944
- 1970s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Jenness ranks #29,611 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 80 born since 1944, peaking in the 1970s.
- #29,611 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 80
- born since 1944
- 1970s
- peak decade
Jenness's 80 recorded births place it above 58.94% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jenness's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Jenness's SSA record in two at 1970 and the more recent half accounts for 53% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 47%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1944, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1950 peak of 9, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Jenness popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1944–1984
- Peak year (1950)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 41 years of records
Jenness by decade
1970s is the heaviest window (32 births, 40% of the file).
1970s was Jenness's strongest decade.
32 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 40% of all-time use.
Jenness births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s 11
1940s
11 births
- 1950s
1950s
27 births
- 1970s
1970s
32 births
- 1980s 10
1980s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 32 births (40% of all-time use).
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- Jenness's decade-level peak was the 1970s (32 total births); usage has since declined to 10 in the 1980s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Jenness: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1950)
Similar record span (~40 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 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, 1944–1984 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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 Jenness 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 August 2026.