Jenifer
#7,133 for girls in 2025, 15 births · Last seen for boys in 1989 at #6,941
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1973 · 913 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 25,551since 1933
Jenifer over time
Rank among girls' names. Jenifer has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,133 | 15 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,615 | 22 | — | |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 | — | |
| 2022 | #7,281 | 15 | — | |
| 2021 | #5,748 | 21 | — | |
| 2020 | #7,212 | 15 | — | |
| 2019 | #5,986 | 20 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,007 | 26 | — | |
| 2017 | #7,092 | 16 | — | |
| 2016 | #5,796 | 22 | — | |
| 2015 | #4,488 | 31 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,103 | 36 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,404 | 46 | — | |
| 2012 | #2,449 | 75 | — | |
| 2011 | #2,454 | 74 | — | |
| 2010 | #1,720 | 121 | — | |
| 2009 | #1,584 | 142 | — | |
| 2008 | #1,133 | 227 | — | |
| 2007 | #1,048 | 250 | — | |
| 2006 | #1,001 | 259 | — | |
| 2005 | #847 | 298 | — | |
| 2004 | #813 | 308 | — | |
| 2003 | #725 | 353 | — | |
| 2002 | #706 | 354 | — | |
| 2001 | #767 | 311 | — | |
| 2000 | #711 | 326 | — | |
| 1999 | #649 | 355 | — | |
| 1998 | #771 | 279 | — | |
| 1997 | #720 | 299 | — | |
| 1996 | #827 | 242 | — | |
| 1995 | #712 | 291 | — | |
| 1994 | #719 | 288 | — | |
| 1993 | #784 | 262 | — | |
| 1992 | #671 | 328 | — | |
| 1991 | #626 | 359 | — | |
| 1990 | #623 | 358 | — | |
| 1989 | #600 | 357 | #6,941 | 6 |
| 1988 | #560 | 381 | — | |
| 1987 | #481 | 447 | #6,951 | 5 |
| 1986 | #471 | 455 | — | |
| 1985 | #374 | 606 | #5,785 | 6 |
| 1984 | #375 | 607 | — | |
| 1983 | #349 | 647 | — | |
| 1982 | #334 | 723 | — | |
| 1981 | #336 | 706 | — | |
| 1980 | #333 | 724 | — | |
| 1979 | #327 | 714 | — | |
| 1978 | #305 | 763 | — | |
| 1977 | #292 | 814 | — | |
| 1976 | #295 | 773 | — | |
| 1975 | #287 | 838 | — | |
| 1974 | #278 | 923 | — | |
| 1973 | #271 | 913 | — | |
| 1972 | #282 | 913 | — | |
| 1971 | #333 | 782 | — | |
| 1970 | #347 | 736 | — | |
| 1969 | #395 | 572 | — | |
| 1968 | #430 | 487 | — | |
| 1967 | #537 | 305 | — | |
| 1966 | #518 | 331 | — | |
| 1965 | #516 | 341 | — | |
| 1964 | #548 | 326 | #4,039 | 5 |
| 1963 | #572 | 294 | — | |
| 1962 | #557 | 308 | — | |
| 1961 | #593 | 287 | — | |
| 1960 | #656 | 240 | — | |
| 1959 | #694 | 208 | — | |
| 1958 | #643 | 234 | — | |
| 1957 | #793 | 162 | — | |
| 1956 | #817 | 147 | — | |
| 1955 | #961 | 106 | — | |
| 1954 | #936 | 106 | — | |
| 1953 | #860 | 118 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,008 | 87 | — | |
| 1951 | #996 | 88 | — | |
| 1950 | #959 | 88 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,064 | 71 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,070 | 68 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,290 | 50 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,087 | 61 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,155 | 46 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,609 | 26 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,994 | 19 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,559 | 28 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,018 | 17 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,297 | 13 | — | |
| 1939 | #2,206 | 14 | — | |
| 1938 | #3,847 | 6 | — | |
| 1937 | #3,800 | 6 | — | |
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| 1934 | #3,449 | 7 | — | |
| 1933 | #3,753 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jenifer! It came in at #3,753, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1935–1936, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Jenifer is popular in 1949
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Ohio#601 · 1 in 12,388
- Illinois#659 · 1 in 12,259
- California#741 · 1 in 11,322
- New York#934 · 1 in 23,651
Best ever in a state: #84 in Utah, 1977.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Ohio | #601 | 7 | 1 in 12,388 |
| Illinois | #659 | 7 | 1 in 12,259 |
| California | #741 | 10 | 1 in 11,322 |
| New York | #934 | 6 | 1 in 23,651 |
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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 Jenifer
- 1,518 spots since 2024 (#5,615 → #7,133)
- 79 spots since 2020 (#7,212 → #7,133)
- 2,645 spots since 2015 (#4,488 → #7,133)
- Biggest jump: 150 spots in 1958 (#793 → #643)
- Biggest drop: 154 spots in 2006 (#847 → #1,001)
- Debuted 1933
- Peaked 1973 at #271 (913 births)
- Births halved by 1986, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 55 yrs · run 1953–2005
- Highest: 1 in 1,590 girls born in 1974 were named Jenifer (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 107,151 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #271 in 1973, was only 1 in 1,597 (0.06%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 32.0% of all girls named Jenifer (8,169) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 39 | #2,206 (1939) | #3,411 |
| 1940s | 399 | #1,064 (1949) | #1,514 |
| 1950s | 1,344 | #643 (1958) | #867 |
| 1960s | 3,491 | #395 (1969) | #532 |
| 1970s | 8,169 | #271 (1973) | #302 |
| 1980s | 5,653 | #333 (1980) | #421 |
| 1990s | 3,061 | #623 (1990) | #710 |
| 2000s | 2,828 | #706 (2002) | #934 |
| 2010s | 467 | #1,720 (2010) | #4,250 |
| 2020s | 100 | #5,615 (2024) | #6,913 |
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.
Jenifer in 1949
Top girls' names in 1949
More about 1949
girls
1,710,877 girls got a published name in 1949; 1 in 24,097 of them was named Jenifer, which outranked 82.5% of the 6,066 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,056Linnie72
- #1,056Lue72
- #1,056Terese72
- #1,064Jenifer71
- #1,064Germaine71
- #1,064Hallie71
- #1,064Sherida71
- #1,070Dorcas70
- #1,070Georgiann70
- #1,070Jacqulyn70
Tied with 5 names at #1,064; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.