Jenelle
#6,116 for girls in 2025, 19 births
- Peak · girls
- 1981 · 253 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 7,204since 1917
Jenelle over time
Rank among girls' names. Jenelle has never cracked the top 600 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #6,116 | 19 |
| 2024 | #6,642 | 17 |
| 2023 | #4,655 | 29 |
| 2022 | #3,893 | 38 |
| 2021 | #4,090 | 35 |
| 2020 | #2,890 | 56 |
| 2019 | #3,043 | 53 |
| 2018 | #2,677 | 64 |
| 2017 | #2,664 | 65 |
| 2016 | #2,463 | 74 |
| 2015 | #2,123 | 90 |
| 2014 | #2,256 | 83 |
| 2013 | #2,002 | 97 |
| 2012 | #1,904 | 105 |
| 2011 | #1,646 | 130 |
| 2010 | #2,752 | 64 |
| 2009 | #2,800 | 63 |
| 2008 | #2,318 | 84 |
| 2007 | #2,394 | 79 |
| 2006 | #2,165 | 89 |
| 2005 | #2,407 | 73 |
| 2004 | #2,204 | 80 |
| 2003 | #2,106 | 83 |
| 2002 | #2,126 | 79 |
| 2001 | #1,901 | 91 |
| 2000 | #2,593 | 57 |
| 1999 | #2,153 | 70 |
| 1998 | #1,667 | 96 |
| 1997 | #1,914 | 76 |
| 1996 | #1,615 | 95 |
| 1995 | #1,614 | 92 |
| 1994 | #1,649 | 91 |
| 1993 | #1,451 | 110 |
| 1992 | #1,174 | 149 |
| 1991 | #1,077 | 168 |
| 1990 | #1,127 | 154 |
| 1989 | #1,057 | 161 |
| 1988 | #1,028 | 157 |
| 1987 | #861 | 197 |
| 1986 | #861 | 192 |
| 1985 | #707 | 247 |
| 1984 | #741 | 220 |
| 1983 | #761 | 212 |
| 1982 | #708 | 245 |
| 1981 | #688 | 253 |
| 1980 | #747 | 222 |
| 1979 | #744 | 218 |
| 1978 | #767 | 201 |
| 1977 | #926 | 151 |
| 1976 | #1,016 | 123 |
| 1975 | #1,291 | 86 |
| 1974 | #1,094 | 106 |
| 1973 | #1,312 | 77 |
| 1972 | #1,313 | 77 |
| 1971 | #1,427 | 73 |
| 1970 | #1,562 | 62 |
| 1969 | #1,370 | 70 |
| 1968 | #1,406 | 64 |
| 1967 | #1,537 | 53 |
| 1966 | #1,646 | 46 |
| 1965 | #1,993 | 34 |
| 1964 | #2,071 | 33 |
| 1963 | #2,015 | 34 |
| 1962 | #1,807 | 40 |
| 1961 | #2,004 | 34 |
| 1960 | #2,904 | 18 |
| 1959 | #2,054 | 30 |
| 1958 | #2,025 | 30 |
| 1957 | #2,067 | 28 |
| 1956 | #2,453 | 21 |
| 1955 | #2,280 | 23 |
| 1954 | #2,378 | 21 |
| 1953 | #2,516 | 18 |
| 1952 | #2,327 | 20 |
| 1951 | #2,116 | 22 |
| 1950 | #2,535 | 16 |
| 1949 | #2,410 | 17 |
| 1948 | #2,070 | 22 |
| 1947 | #2,769 | 14 |
| 1946 | #2,739 | 13 |
| 1945 | #1,699 | 24 |
| 1944 | #3,378 | 8 |
| 1943 | #3,493 | 8 |
| 1942 | #3,444 | 8 |
| 1941 | #3,030 | 9 |
| 1940 | #1,845 | 19 |
| 1939 | #1,684 | 21 |
| 1938 | #1,752 | 20 |
| 1937 | #2,448 | 12 |
| 1936 | #2,689 | 10 |
| 1935 | #3,431 | 7 |
| 1934 | #2,003 | 16 |
| 1933 | #2,868 | 9 |
| 1932 | #2,490 | 12 |
| 1931 | #2,972 | 9 |
| 1930 | #2,690 | 11 |
| 1929 | #2,921 | 10 |
| 1928 | — | |
| 1927 | #3,284 | 9 |
| 1926 | #3,046 | 10 |
| 1925 | #4,426 | 6 |
| 1924 | #2,661 | 13 |
| 1923 | #2,732 | 12 |
| 1922 | #2,958 | 11 |
| 1921 | #3,164 | 10 |
| 1920 | #3,598 | 8 |
| 1919 | #3,817 | 7 |
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| 1917 | #4,083 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jenelle! It came in at #4,083, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1918, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Jenelle is popular in 1976
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Oregon#288 · 1 in 1,722
- Colorado#475 · 1 in 3,241
- Illinois#697 · 1 in 6,356
- Pennsylvania#767 · 1 in 9,201
- Michigan#828 · 1 in 9,068
Best ever in a state: #235 in New Mexico, 1979.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Oregon | #288 | 8 | 1 in 1,722 |
| Colorado | #475 | 5 | 1 in 3,241 |
| Illinois | #697 | 11 | 1 in 6,356 |
| Pennsylvania | #767 | 7 | 1 in 9,201 |
| Michigan | #828 | 6 | 1 in 9,068 |
| New York | #839 | 13 | 1 in 7,716 |
| California | #989 | 15 | 1 in 9,591 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Jenelle
- 526 spots since 2024 (#6,642 → #6,116)
- 3,226 spots since 2020 (#2,890 → #6,116)
- 3,993 spots since 2015 (#2,123 → #6,116)
- Biggest jump: 159 spots in 1978 (#926 → #767)
- Biggest drop: 167 spots in 1988 (#861 → #1,028)
- Debuted 1917
- Peaked 1981 at #688 (253 births)
- Births halved by 1993, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 11 yrs · run 1977–1987
- Highest: 1 in 6,593 girls born in 1981 were named Jenelle (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 84,593 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 29.2% of all girls named Jenelle (2,106) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 13 | #3,817 (1919) | #3,950 |
| 1920s | 89 | #2,661 (1924) | #3,199 |
| 1930s | 127 | #1,684 (1939) | #2,503 |
| 1940s | 142 | #1,699 (1945) | #2,688 |
| 1950s | 229 | #2,025 (1958) | #2,275 |
| 1960s | 426 | #1,370 (1969) | #1,875 |
| 1970s | 1,174 | #744 (1979) | #1,145 |
| 1980s | 2,106 | #688 (1981) | #816 |
| 1990s | 1,101 | #1,077 (1991) | #1,544 |
| 2000s | 778 | #1,901 (2001) | #2,301 |
| 2010s | 825 | #1,646 (2011) | #2,353 |
| 2020s | 194 | #2,890 (2020) | #4,714 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jenelle in 1976
Top girls' names in 1976
More about 1976
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1,465,099 girls got a published name in 1976; 1 in 11,911 of them was named Jenelle, which outranked 90.7% of the 10,913 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,009Luisa124
- #1,009Milagros124
- #1,009Tenille124
- #1,016Jenelle123
- #1,016Claudette123
- #1,016Devon123
- #1,016Janeen123
- #1,022Cherise122
- #1,022Melodie122
- #1,022Patsy122
Tied with 5 names at #1,016; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.