Jini
Jini was last recorded in 1984, when 5 babies were given it; 61 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Jini by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Jini?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,100, in 1984; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
9 babies in 1948, the peak
Jini peaked in 1948, when 9 girls were given it, #3,714 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 5 | #11,100 | 3.0 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,195 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,030 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,452 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,984 | 3.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #7,943 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,036 | 2.6 |
| 1959 | 6 | #5,858 | 3.0 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,714 | 5.3 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,674 | 2.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Jini a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Jini has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 10 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Jini: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Jini, and how old are they?
An estimated 53 Americans named Jini and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 313 people named Jini (310 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 55 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
Jini is a less common spelling of Jinnie: SSA has recorded 61 Jini and 844 Jinnie since 1880.
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.