Jenni
Jenni was given to 13 girls in 2025, #8,076 among girls’ names; 5,548 Americans have been recorded with it since 1945 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 5,230 Americans named Jenni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 44 years old and half are between 34 and 53.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jenni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Jenni mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Jenni is “a diminutive of the female given name Jennifer.”
Modern variant of Jenny.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Jenni?
#8,076 among girls’ names, 2025
Jenni fell from #3,453 in 2015 to #8,076 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 25.8 to 8.1 per million.
204 babies in 1972, the peak
Jenni peaked in 1972, when 204 girls were given it, #709 among girls’ names. The 13 births of 2025 are 6% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #8,076 | 0.01 |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,265 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,238 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,845 | 0.02 |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,046 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,454 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,854 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,641 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,926 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,203 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 46 | #3,453 | 0.03 |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,860 | 0.03 |
| 2013 | 121 | #1,718 | 0.07 |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,874 | 0.02 |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,501 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,446 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,481 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,545 | 0.02 |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,502 | 0.02 |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,585 | 0.02 |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,673 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,590 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,379 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,260 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,818 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,461 | 0.01 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,063 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,984 | 0.02 |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,843 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,213 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,695 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,717 | 0.03 |
| 1993 | 66 | #2,074 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 82 | #1,775 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 78 | #1,820 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 90 | #1,643 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 109 | #1,385 | 0.06 |
| 1988 | 112 | #1,295 | 0.06 |
| 1987 | 126 | #1,168 | 0.07 |
| 1986 | 135 | #1,099 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 160 | #965 | 0.09 |
| 1984 | 182 | #847 | 0.11 |
| 1983 | 184 | #832 | 0.11 |
| 1982 | 192 | #819 | 0.11 |
| 1981 | 163 | #922 | 0.10 |
| 1980 | 170 | #895 | 0.10 |
| 1979 | 166 | #898 | 0.10 |
| 1978 | 155 | #915 | 0.10 |
| 1977 | 156 | #908 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 131 | #973 | 0.09 |
| 1975 | 124 | #992 | 0.09 |
| 1974 | 137 | #921 | 0.09 |
| 1973 | 160 | #822 | 0.11 |
| 1972 | 204 | #709 | 0.13 |
| 1971 | 175 | #803 | 0.11 |
| 1970 | 91 | #1,230 | 0.05 |
| 1969 | 77 | #1,283 | 0.05 |
| 1968 | 71 | #1,316 | 0.04 |
| 1967 | 52 | #1,570 | 0.03 |
| 1966 | 49 | #1,608 | 0.03 |
| 1965 | 60 | #1,430 | 0.03 |
| 1964 | 77 | #1,258 | 0.04 |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,377 | 0.03 |
| 1962 | 89 | #1,162 | 0.05 |
| 1961 | 66 | #1,382 | 0.03 |
| 1960 | 57 | #1,460 | 0.03 |
| 1959 | 64 | #1,341 | 0.03 |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,775 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 52 | #1,478 | 0.03 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,124 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,301 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,823 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,741 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,978 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,189 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,711 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,073 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,713 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,338 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,798 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,255 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jenni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jenni has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jenni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jenni, and how old are they?
5,230 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 5,548 Americans ever recorded as Jenni. The median Jenni alive today is 44 years old; half are between 34 and 53.
The 2020 Census counted 6,662 people named Jenni (6,636 women and girls, 26 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,213 born in the U.S. The Census count is 28% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Jenni rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 555 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 1,850 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,770 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 639 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 409 |
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 Jenni born?
The states with the most babies named Jenni are California, Texas and Ohio, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 647 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Texas | 361 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 196 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 147 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 145 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 145 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| New York | 130 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Wisconsin | 95 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Washington | 88 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 80 | not ranked | 0.4× |
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 Jenni 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 604,931 babies since 1880, Jenni is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 13 of their 742 babies (1.8%), again the eighth most given.
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 Jenni
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 Jenni and names like it
- Compare Jenni and JeanneBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sJenni peaked in 1972.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jenni since 1910.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Jenni.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Jenni alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with JMost given first.