Jencarlos

Where Jencarlos comes from

Jencarlos hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1988
    Jencarlos Canela born
    American actor and singer
  2. 2009
    First appearance
    #2,663 among boys, 46 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 2010
    Peak, #928
    217 babies named Jencarlos — more than any year before or since.
  4. 2013
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,500.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jencarlos Canela · American actor and singer, born 1988

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.