Meaning not yet researched.
Jenelle: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 19 in 2025. Its best rank was #688 in 1981.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #688 in 1981; #6,211 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jenelle in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#6,211 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1981, at #688.
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Jenelle: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 19 girls in 2025. Peak: #688 in 1981 · most girls in one year: 253 (1981).
In 2025, 19 US girls were named Jenelle, making it the 6,211th most common girls’ name of the year, up 569 places from #6,780 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 17 girls named Jenelle in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #688, reached in 1981. That year also had the most girls given the name: 253. For comparison, it was #2,133 in 2015 and #2,605 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jenelle in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1917 with 6 babies. In all, 7,204 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 2,106 babies named Jenelle.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 450 US girls were named Jenelle; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 74. In 2025 that was about 1 in 84,593 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Janelle (56,967 babies since 1880) and Jenell (3,062 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jeanelle, Jennell and Jennelle are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jeanelle (2,280), Jennell (1,301), Jennelle (1,103), Jeanell (874), Jenel (510), Jeannelle (75), Jeneal (71), Jenille (69), Jenielle (47), Jynelle (37), Jeneil (17), Jynell (15), and more.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Jenelle in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 19 | #6,211 | — | — |
| 2024 | 17 | #6,780 | — | — |
| 2023 | 29 | #4,691 | — | — |
| 2022 | 38 | #3,919 | — | — |
| 2021 | 35 | #4,134 | — | — |
| 2020 | 56 | #2,911 | — | — |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,063 | — | — |
| 2018 | 64 | #2,698 | — | — |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,679 | — | — |
| 2016 | 74 | #2,468 | — | — |
| 2015 | 90 | #2,133 | — | — |
| 2014 | 83 | #2,260 | — | — |
| 2013 | 97 | #2,009 | — | — |
| 2012 | 105 | #1,907 | — | — |
| 2011 | 130 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,768 | — | — |
| 2009 | 63 | #2,808 | — | — |
| 2008 | 84 | #2,326 | — | — |
| 2007 | 79 | #2,408 | — | — |
| 2006 | 89 | #2,171 | — | — |
| 2005 | 73 | #2,417 | — | — |
| 2004 | 80 | #2,214 | — | — |
| 2003 | 83 | #2,111 | — | — |
| 2002 | 79 | #2,128 | — | — |
| 2001 | 91 | #1,913 | — | — |
| 2000 | 57 | #2,610 | — | — |
| 1999 | 70 | #2,160 | — | — |
| 1998 | 96 | #1,671 | — | — |
| 1997 | 76 | #1,920 | — | — |
| 1996 | 95 | #1,620 | — | — |
| 1995 | 92 | #1,617 | — | — |
| 1994 | 91 | #1,654 | — | — |
| 1993 | 110 | #1,454 | — | — |
| 1992 | 149 | #1,178 | — | — |
| 1991 | 168 | #1,080 | — | — |
| 1990 | 154 | #1,127 | — | — |
| 1989 | 161 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 1988 | 157 | #1,029 | — | — |
| 1987 | 197 | #862 | — | — |
| 1986 | 192 | #863 | — | — |
| 1985 | 247 | #707 | — | — |
| 1984 | 220 | #741 | — | — |
| 1983 | 212 | #761 | — | — |
| 1982 | 245 | #709 | — | — |
| 1981 | 253 | #688 | — | — |
| 1980 | 222 | #747 | — | — |
| 1979 | 218 | #746 | — | — |
| 1978 | 201 | #768 | — | — |
| 1977 | 151 | #928 | — | — |
| 1976 | 123 | #1,019 | — | — |
| 1975 | 86 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1974 | 106 | #1,097 | — | — |
| 1973 | 77 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1972 | 77 | #1,319 | — | — |
| 1971 | 73 | #1,432 | — | — |
| 1970 | 62 | #1,565 | — | — |
| 1969 | 70 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1968 | 64 | #1,409 | — | — |
| 1967 | 53 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 1966 | 46 | #1,656 | — | — |
| 1965 | 34 | #2,014 | — | — |
| 1964 | 33 | #2,084 | — | — |
| 1963 | 34 | #2,036 | — | — |
| 1962 | 40 | #1,814 | — | — |
| 1961 | 34 | #2,013 | — | — |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,940 | — | — |
| 1959 | 30 | #2,074 | — | — |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,040 | — | — |
| 1957 | 28 | #2,087 | — | — |
| 1956 | 21 | #2,494 | — | — |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,301 | — | — |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,406 | — | — |
| 1953 | 18 | #2,553 | — | — |
| 1952 | 20 | #2,361 | — | — |
| 1951 | 22 | #2,151 | — | — |
| 1950 | 16 | #2,605 | — | — |
| 1949 | 17 | #2,458 | — | — |
| 1948 | 22 | #2,096 | — | — |
| 1947 | 14 | #2,821 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,798 | — | — |
| 1945 | 24 | #1,716 | — | — |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,523 | — | — |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,631 | — | — |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,560 | — | — |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,114 | — | — |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,862 | — | — |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,702 | — | — |
| 1938 | 20 | #1,776 | — | — |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,504 | — | — |
| 1936 | 10 | #2,767 | — | — |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,569 | — | — |
| 1934 | 16 | #2,036 | — | — |
| 1933 | 9 | #2,993 | — | — |
| 1932 | 12 | #2,561 | — | — |
| 1931 | 9 | #3,091 | — | — |
| 1930 | 11 | #2,765 | — | — |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,030 | — | — |
| 1927 | 9 | #3,415 | — | — |
| 1926 | 10 | #3,158 | — | — |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,679 | — | — |
| 1924 | 13 | #2,734 | — | — |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,818 | — | — |
| 1922 | 11 | #3,047 | — | — |
| 1921 | 10 | #3,263 | — | — |
| 1920 | 8 | #3,780 | — | — |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,033 | — | — |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,331 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).