In 2025, 14 US girls were named Jenae, making it the 7,648th most common girls’ name of the year, up 115 places from #7,763 in 2024. That is 0 more than the 14 girls named Jenae in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,091, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 165. For comparison, it was #5,369 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jenae in 65 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1958 with 7 babies. In all, 3,372 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,077 babies named Jenae.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 177 US girls were named Jenae; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 24. In 2025 that was about 1 in 114,805 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jenna (148,842 babies since 1880), Jena (13,248 babies since 1880), Jeana (7,694 babies since 1880) and Jennah (3,115 babies since 1880).