Meaning not yet researched.
Jenessa: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 12 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,141 in 1991.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,141 in 1991; #8,581 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jenessa in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,581 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1991, at #1,141.
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Jenessa: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 12 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,141 in 1991 · most girls in one year: 156 (1991).
In 2025, 12 US girls were named Jenessa, making it the 8,581st most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,315 places from #6,266 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 19 girls named Jenessa in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,141, reached in 1991. That year also had the most girls given the name: 156. For comparison, it was #2,948 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jenessa in 56 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 6 babies. In all, 3,221 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 893 babies named Jenessa.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 265 US girls were named Jenessa; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 52. In 2025 that was about 1 in 133,939 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Jennessa, Jenissa and Jenisa 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.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jennessa (618), Jenissa (193), Jenisa (164), Jenesa (109), Jynessa (33), Jennesa (29), Jeanessa (17), Jennisa (15), Jenyssa (5), Jinessa (5).
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 Jenessa 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 | 12 | #8,581 | — | — |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,266 | — | — |
| 2023 | 15 | #7,425 | — | — |
| 2022 | 23 | #5,540 | — | — |
| 2021 | 25 | #5,152 | — | — |
| 2020 | 28 | #4,688 | — | — |
| 2019 | 22 | #5,695 | — | — |
| 2018 | 23 | #5,530 | — | — |
| 2017 | 46 | #3,411 | — | — |
| 2016 | 52 | #3,157 | — | — |
| 2015 | 59 | #2,948 | — | — |
| 2014 | 67 | #2,630 | — | — |
| 2013 | 69 | #2,582 | — | — |
| 2012 | 76 | #2,437 | — | — |
| 2011 | 98 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 2010 | 69 | #2,625 | — | — |
| 2009 | 69 | #2,659 | — | — |
| 2008 | 80 | #2,403 | — | — |
| 2007 | 96 | #2,105 | — | — |
| 2006 | 72 | #2,544 | — | — |
| 2005 | 115 | #1,723 | — | — |
| 2004 | 109 | #1,765 | — | — |
| 2003 | 103 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 2001 | 85 | #2,003 | — | — |
| 2000 | 66 | #2,352 | — | — |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,944 | — | — |
| 1998 | 66 | #2,172 | — | — |
| 1997 | 65 | #2,142 | — | — |
| 1996 | 52 | #2,460 | — | — |
| 1995 | 66 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 1994 | 82 | #1,775 | — | — |
| 1993 | 83 | #1,767 | — | — |
| 1992 | 91 | #1,667 | — | — |
| 1991 | 156 | #1,141 | — | — |
| 1990 | 116 | #1,365 | — | — |
| 1989 | 81 | #1,693 | — | — |
| 1988 | 66 | #1,876 | — | — |
| 1987 | 81 | #1,557 | — | — |
| 1986 | 58 | #1,919 | — | — |
| 1985 | 70 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1984 | 87 | #1,364 | — | — |
| 1983 | 44 | #2,210 | — | — |
| 1982 | 53 | #1,972 | — | — |
| 1981 | 42 | #2,350 | — | — |
| 1980 | 32 | #2,822 | — | — |
| 1979 | 41 | #2,317 | — | — |
| 1978 | 27 | #2,967 | — | — |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,809 | — | — |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,454 | — | — |
| 1975 | 5 | #9,633 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,834 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,015 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,388 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,512 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,547 | — | — |
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).