Jennessa — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jennessa

The Social Security Administration has registered 618 babies named Jennessa between 1976 and 2018, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jennessa currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 35 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jennessa performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 241 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Jennessa shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 55 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Jennessa in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jennessa in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 618 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.