Jennalyn
- #8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · girls
- 2005 · 25 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 505since 1982
Jennalyn over time
girls
Rank among girls' names. Jennalyn has never cracked the top 5,000 here.
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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
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 |
| 2024 | #13,477 | 6 |
| 2023 | #12,197 | 7 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #11,146 | 8 |
| 2020 | #13,453 | 6 |
| 2019 | #11,356 | 8 |
| 2018 | #7,409 | 15 |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 |
| 2016 | #10,113 | 10 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 |
| 2014 | #8,966 | 12 |
| 2013 | #9,036 | 12 |
| 2012 | #9,711 | 11 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 |
| 2010 | #7,880 | 15 |
| 2009 | #8,058 | 15 |
| 2008 | #5,750 | 24 |
| 2007 | #8,098 | 15 |
| 2006 | #6,592 | 19 |
| 2005 | #5,113 | 25 |
| 2004 | #8,259 | 13 |
| 2003 | #6,299 | 18 |
| 2002 | #6,129 | 18 |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 |
| 2000 | #8,534 | 11 |
| 1999 | #11,385 | 7 |
| 1998 | #9,260 | 9 |
| 1997 | #13,724 | 5 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 |
| 1995 | #10,514 | 7 |
| 1994 | #7,604 | 11 |
| 1993 | #8,052 | 10 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 |
| 1991 | #11,509 | 6 |
| 1990 | #10,193 | 7 |
| 1989 | #7,449 | 10 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 |
| 1986 | #7,134 | 9 |
| 1985 | #7,563 | 8 |
| 1984 | #6,291 | 10 |
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| 1982 | #9,237 | 6 |
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First appearance
1982
The first year at least five girls were named Jennalyn! It came in at #9,237, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1983, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Jennalyn is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Jennalyn in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
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Momentum · girls
Rising
- 5,115 spots since 2024 (#13,477 → #8,362)
- 5,091 spots since 2020 (#13,453 → #8,362)
- 85 spots since 2015 (#8,447 → #8,362)
Rise & fade · girls
23 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1982
- Peaked 2005 at #5,113 (25 births)
- Births halved by 2012, 7 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 73,294
- Highest: 1 in 73,294 girls born in 2011 were named Jennalyn (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #5,113 in 2005, was only 1 in 73,914 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 2000s
- 35.0% of all girls named Jennalyn (177) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | 64 | #6,291 (1984) | #7,303 |
| 1990s | 84 | #7,067 (1992) | #9,744 |
| 2000s | 177 | #5,113 (2005) | #6,865 |
| 2010s | 141 | #5,543 (2011) | #8,428 |
| 2020s | 39 | #8,362 (2025) | #11,727 |
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.
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