Jinelle — girls' name

What the Data Says About Jinelle

The Social Security Administration has registered 159 babies named Jinelle between 1977 and 2013, spanning 37 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Jinelle currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 18 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jinelle performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 62 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Jinelle shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Jinelle in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jinelle 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 159 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.