Girls' name · since 1925
Jennye
Jennye has 68 recorded births since 1925 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1948 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 68
- total births
- 1925–1987
- years on record
- 1940s
- peak decade
- 31%
- born in that decade
68 girls have been named Jennye since 1925, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Jennye has 68 recorded births among girls since 1925, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1940s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1925 to 1987.
- 68 total births
- 1925–1987 years on record
- 1940s peak decade
- 31% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jennye's 68 recorded births place it above 56% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jennye's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Jennye's full recorded timeline at 1948, 56% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 44% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1927, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1948 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Jennye popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1925–1987
- Peak year (1948)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 63 years of records
Jennye by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1940s was Jennye's strongest decade.
21 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 31% of all-time use.
Jennye births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1920s
1920s
11 births
- 1930s 6
1930s
6 births
- 1940s
1940s
21 births
- 1950s
1950s
14 births
- 1960s
1960s
11 births
- 1980s 5
1980s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1940s at 21 births (31% of all-time use).
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What to do with Jennye's data
- Jennye's decade-level peak was the 1940s (21 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 1980s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 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, 1925–1987 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jennye: Baby Name Since 1925 - 68 Births, Peak 1948." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jennye. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
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 Jennye 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 July 2026.