Jennika
Jennika was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,455 among girls’ names; 468 Americans have been recorded with it since 1980 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jennika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jennika?
#10,455 among girls’ names, 2025
Jennika fell from #7,108 in 2015 to #10,455 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.5 to 5.6 per million.
33 babies in 2013, the peak
Jennika peaked in 2013, when 33 girls were given it, #4,375 among girls’ names. The 9 births of 2025 are 27% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,455 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,799 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 7 | #12,766 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,060 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #14,604 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,091 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,423 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 17 | #7,108 | 9.5 |
| 2014 | 19 | #6,569 | 10.6 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,375 | 18.8 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 14 | #8,399 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 22 | #6,029 | 12.5 |
| 2010 | 15 | #8,062 | 8.4 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,279 | 6.0 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,391 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,237 | 6.8 |
| 2006 | 9 | #11,860 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 20 | #6,108 | 10.8 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,831 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 16 | #7,025 | 8.8 |
| 2002 | 10 | #9,818 | 5.6 |
| 2001 | 12 | #8,432 | 6.7 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,334 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,089 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,290 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 5 | #14,726 | 2.9 |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,811 | 6.3 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,413 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,443 | 3.4 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,449 | 3.3 |
| 1992 | 8 | #9,870 | 4.3 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,220 | 5.3 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,666 | 3.7 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,702 | 6.5 |
| 1988 | 9 | #7,967 | 5.1 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,061 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 7 | #8,924 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 6 | #9,811 | 3.5 |
| 1983 | 5 | #10,935 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,113 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,067 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,561 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jennika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jennika has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jennika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jennika, and how old are they?
An estimated 462 Americans named Jennika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 13 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 414 people named Jennika (414 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 433 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Jennika?
Jennika is a less common spelling of Jenica: SSA has recorded 468 Jennika and 2,079 Jenica since 1880.
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 6,084 babies since 1880, Jennika is the fourth most given (7.7% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 45 babies (20%), the second most given that year.
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 Jennika
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 Jennika and names like it
- Compare Jennika and JenicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sJennika peaked in 2013.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Jennika since 1910.
- The top names of 2013The year the most babies were named Jennika.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Jennika alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with JMost given first.