Jenni
#7,885 for girls in 2025, 13 births
- Peak · girls
- 1972 · 204 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 5,548since 1945
Jenni over time
Rank among girls' names. Jenni has never cracked the top 700 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #7,885 | 13 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 |
| 2023 | #8,055 | 13 |
| 2022 | #4,793 | 28 |
| 2021 | #5,955 | 20 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 |
| 2019 | #10,473 | 9 |
| 2018 | #6,521 | 18 |
| 2017 | #5,821 | 21 |
| 2016 | #5,130 | 26 |
| 2015 | #3,429 | 46 |
| 2014 | #2,843 | 60 |
| 2013 | #1,713 | 121 |
| 2012 | #3,854 | 40 |
| 2011 | #4,466 | 32 |
| 2010 | #4,397 | 33 |
| 2009 | #3,460 | 47 |
| 2008 | #3,529 | 46 |
| 2007 | #3,482 | 47 |
| 2006 | #3,564 | 44 |
| 2005 | #3,646 | 40 |
| 2004 | #3,566 | 41 |
| 2003 | #3,347 | 43 |
| 2002 | #3,241 | 43 |
| 2001 | #3,785 | 34 |
| 2000 | #4,400 | 27 |
| 1999 | #3,048 | 43 |
| 1998 | #2,973 | 43 |
| 1997 | #2,820 | 43 |
| 1996 | #2,207 | 61 |
| 1995 | #2,687 | 45 |
| 1994 | #2,701 | 45 |
| 1993 | #2,068 | 66 |
| 1992 | #1,774 | 82 |
| 1991 | #1,818 | 78 |
| 1990 | #1,644 | 90 |
| 1989 | #1,383 | 109 |
| 1988 | #1,292 | 112 |
| 1987 | #1,162 | 126 |
| 1986 | #1,097 | 135 |
| 1985 | #963 | 160 |
| 1984 | #845 | 182 |
| 1983 | #832 | 184 |
| 1982 | #817 | 192 |
| 1981 | #920 | 163 |
| 1980 | #893 | 170 |
| 1979 | #897 | 166 |
| 1978 | #913 | 155 |
| 1977 | #905 | 156 |
| 1976 | #971 | 131 |
| 1975 | #990 | 124 |
| 1974 | #920 | 137 |
| 1973 | #820 | 160 |
| 1972 | #708 | 204 |
| 1971 | #802 | 175 |
| 1970 | #1,224 | 91 |
| 1969 | #1,276 | 77 |
| 1968 | #1,311 | 71 |
| 1967 | #1,559 | 52 |
| 1966 | #1,600 | 49 |
| 1965 | #1,421 | 60 |
| 1964 | #1,254 | 77 |
| 1963 | #1,372 | 65 |
| 1962 | #1,158 | 89 |
| 1961 | #1,375 | 66 |
| 1960 | #1,454 | 57 |
| 1959 | #1,337 | 64 |
| 1958 | #1,762 | 38 |
| 1957 | #1,474 | 52 |
| 1956 | #2,103 | 27 |
| 1955 | #2,280 | 23 |
| 1954 | #2,779 | 16 |
| 1953 | #2,699 | 16 |
| 1952 | #2,921 | 14 |
| 1951 | #3,106 | 12 |
| 1950 | #2,652 | 15 |
| 1949 | #2,999 | 12 |
| 1948 | #3,593 | 9 |
| 1947 | #3,240 | 11 |
| 1946 | #2,739 | 13 |
| 1945 | #4,025 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jenni! It came in at #4,025, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1945, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Jenni is popular in 1979
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Utah#213 · 1 in 1,071
- Oregon#309 · 1 in 1,678
- Iowa#389 · 1 in 3,283
- Washington#504 · 1 in 3,617
- Minnesota#517 · 1 in 5,555
Best ever in a state: #202 in South Dakota, 1980.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Utah | #213 | 15 | 1 in 1,071 |
| Oregon | #309 | 10 | 1 in 1,678 |
| Iowa | #389 | 6 | 1 in 3,283 |
| Washington | #504 | 7 | 1 in 3,617 |
| Minnesota | #517 | 5 | 1 in 5,555 |
| Colorado | #524 | 5 | 1 in 3,731 |
| Pennsylvania | #636 | 11 | 1 in 6,219 |
| Michigan | #793 | 7 | 1 in 8,512 |
| Texas | #886 | 14 | 1 in 7,936 |
| Ohio | #934 | 6 | 1 in 12,015 |
| California | #1,016 | 17 | 1 in 9,608 |
| Illinois | #1,280 | 5 | 1 in 14,939 |
| New York | #1,282 | 7 | 1 in 14,132 |
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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 Jenni
- 1,718 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #7,885)
- 1,560 spots since 2020 (#6,325 → #7,885)
- 4,456 spots since 2015 (#3,429 → #7,885)
- Biggest jump: 422 spots in 1971 (#1,224 → #802)
- Biggest drop: 134 spots in 1986 (#963 → #1,097)
- Debuted 1945
- Peaked 1972 at #708 (204 births)
- Births halved by 1990, 18 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 15 yrs · run 1971–1985
- Highest: 1 in 7,457 girls born in 1972 were named Jenni (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 123,636 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.6% of all girls named Jenni (1,533) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 51 | #2,739 (1946) | #3,319 |
| 1950s | 277 | #1,337 (1959) | #2,311 |
| 1960s | 663 | #1,158 (1962) | #1,378 |
| 1970s | 1,499 | #708 (1972) | #915 |
| 1980s | 1,533 | #817 (1982) | #1,020 |
| 1990s | 596 | #1,644 (1990) | #2,374 |
| 2000s | 412 | #3,241 (2002) | #3,602 |
| 2010s | 406 | #1,713 (2013) | #4,865 |
| 2020s | 111 | #4,793 (2022) | #6,530 |
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.
Jenni in 1979
Top girls' names in 1979
More about 1979
girls
1,605,268 girls got a published name in 1979; 1 in 9,670 of them was named Jenni, which outranked 92.5% of the 11,972 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #894Asia167
- #894Danica167
- #894Stephenie167
- #897Jenni166
- #897Annemarie166
- #897Joelle166
- #897Kyle166
- #903Bernice165
- #903Kirstin165
- #905Adria164
Tied with 5 names at #897; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.