Girls' name · since 1979
Jennylynn
Jennylynn has 19 recorded births since 1979 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1979 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 19
- total births
- 1979–1988
- years on record
- 1980s
- peak decade
- 58%
- born in that decade
19 girls have been named Jennylynn since 1979, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Jennylynn has 19 recorded births among girls since 1979, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1980s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1979 to 1988.
- 19 total births
- 1979–1988 years on record
- 1980s peak decade
- 58% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Jennylynn's 19 recorded births place it above 35% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Jennylynn's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Jennylynn's full recorded timeline at 1984, 58% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 42% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1984, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1979 peak of 8 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Jennylynn popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1979–1988
- Peak year (1979)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 10 years of records
Jennylynn by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1980s was Jennylynn's strongest decade.
11 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Jennylynn births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s
1970s
8 births
- 1980s
1980s
11 births
What this shows Peak: 1980s at 11 births (58% of all-time use).
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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, 1979–1988 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Jennylynn: Baby Name Since 1979 - 19 Births, Peak 1979." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/jennylynn. 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 Jennylynn 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.