Jeni

Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194

Peak · girls
1972 · 99 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,856
since 1936

Jeni over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Jeni has never cracked the top 1,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201936peak #1,116, 1972girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yeargirls
rankbirths
2025—
2024—
2023#15,1945
2022—
2021#15,2515
2020#15,0885
2019—
2018#12,4647
2017—
2016#16,2155
2015—
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2013#11,9698
2012—
2011#16,7645
2010#9,79011
2009—
2008#8,96513
2007#6,81219
2006#8,23714
2005#7,89114
2004#6,48918
2003#5,23523
2002#7,44414
2001#6,32217
2000#4,98123
1999#5,66118
1998#5,79917
1997#4,12526
1996#3,72329
1995#2,48651
1994#3,89227
1993#3,22135
1992#2,68745
1991#2,44951
1990#2,69543
1989#2,25053
1988#2,36946
1987#1,96257
1986#1,75166
1985#1,50581
1984#1,44680
1983#1,26099
1982#1,138123
1981#1,38289
1980#1,51878
1979#1,32394
1978#1,37485
1977#1,199102
1976#1,34380
1975#1,80751
1974#1,41472
1973#1,31277
1972#1,11699
1971#1,17298
1970#1,51865
1969#1,60955
1968#2,02435
1967#1,84840
1966#1,82739
1965#2,15430
1964#1,70846
1963#1,98135
1962#1,62748
1961#1,80740
1960#1,69544
1959#1,64344
1958#1,79137
1957#1,72839
1956#2,38922
1955#2,22224
1954#2,88915
1953#3,26912
1952#2,58117
1951#2,93713
1950#3,42310
1949#2,85013
1948#2,70114
1947#3,24011
1946#3,21710
1945#3,1329
1944#4,0546
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First appearance
1936

The first year at least five girls were named Jeni! It came in at #4,181, and was given to 5 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1936–1943, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.

Where Jeni is popular in 1936

No state had 5 or more girls named Jeni in 1936, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Jeni
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
Rise & fade · girls
36 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1936
  • Peaked 1972 at #1,116 (99 births)
  • Births halved by 1988, 16 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 13,767
  • Highest: 1 in 13,767 girls born in 1982 were named Jeni (0.01%)
  • Latest: 1 in 320,916 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
  • Its best rank, #1,116 in 1972, was only 1 in 15,366 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 28.8% of all girls named Jeni (823) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1930s5#4,181 (1936)#4,181
1940s63#2,701 (1948)#3,199
1950s233#1,643 (1959)#2,487
1960s412#1,609 (1969)#1,828
1970s823#1,116 (1972)#1,358
1980s772#1,138 (1982)#1,658
1990s342#2,449 (1991)#3,674
2000s155#4,981 (2000)#6,931
2010s36#9,790 (2010)#13,440
2020s15#15,088 (2020)#15,178

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.

Jeni in 1936

girls
#4,181
5 births · 1 in 208,078 girls

Top girls' names in 1936

  1. #1Mary54,377
  2. #2Shirley35,161
  3. #3Barbara31,682
  4. #4Betty25,868
  5. #5Patricia23,916
  6. #6Dorothy17,666
  7. #7Joan17,072
  8. #8Nancy16,755
  9. #9Margaret14,596
  10. #10Carol14,520
  11. #4,181Jeni5
More about 1936

girls

1,040,390 girls got a published name in 1936; 1 in 208,078 of them was named Jeni, which outranked 13.9% of the 4,856 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Jeni
  1. #3,701Zandra6
  2. #3,701Zelphia6
  3. #3,701Zilphia6
  4. #4,181Jeni5
  5. #4,181Adalene5
  6. #4,181Addis5
  7. #4,181Adelita5

Tied with 675 names at #4,181; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1935
Risers
  1. ↑ 3,238Shelba#3,742 → #504
  2. ↑ 662Shelby#840 → #178
  3. ↑ 600Wendy#1,418 → #818
  4. ↑ 588Deanna#1,356 → #768
  5. ↑ 546Shari#1,514 → #968
Fallers
  1. ↓ 1,028Norita#713 → #1,741
  2. ↓ 506Vernetta#974 → #1,480
  3. ↓ 461Ozella#984 → #1,445
  4. ↓ 400Shirleyann#896 → #1,296
  5. ↓ 342Idell#925 → #1,267

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1936 →