Meaning not yet researched.
Jenifer: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 15 in 2025. Its best rank was #271 in 1973.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #271 in 1973; #7,282 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jenifer in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#7,282 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1973, at #271.
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Jenifer: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 15 girls in 2025. Peak: #271 in 1973 · most girls in one year: 923 (1974).
In 2025, 15 US girls were named Jenifer, making it the 7,282nd most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,584 places from #5,698 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 22 girls named Jenifer in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #271, reached in 1973. The most girls given the name in a single year was 923, in 1974. For comparison, it was #4,535 in 2015 and #963 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jenifer in 91 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1933 with 6 babies. In all, 25,573 US babies have been given the name, 99.9% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 8,169 babies named Jenifer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 184 US girls were named Jenifer; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 26. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jennifer (1,476,540 babies since 1880), Jeniffer (3,656 babies since 1880), Jenniffer (2,878 babies since 1880) and Jennyfer (1,809 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jenipher 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jenipher (226).
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 Jenifer 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 | 15 | #7,282 | — | — |
| 2024 | 22 | #5,698 | — | — |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,699 | — | — |
| 2022 | 15 | #7,433 | — | — |
| 2021 | 21 | #5,841 | — | — |
| 2020 | 15 | #7,368 | — | — |
| 2019 | 20 | #6,063 | — | — |
| 2018 | 26 | #5,070 | — | — |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,235 | — | — |
| 2016 | 22 | #5,880 | — | — |
| 2015 | 31 | #4,535 | — | — |
| 2014 | 36 | #4,141 | — | — |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,426 | — | — |
| 2012 | 75 | #2,463 | — | — |
| 2011 | 74 | #2,465 | — | — |
| 2010 | 121 | #1,725 | — | — |
| 2009 | 142 | #1,586 | — | — |
| 2008 | 227 | #1,133 | — | — |
| 2007 | 250 | #1,049 | — | — |
| 2006 | 259 | #1,002 | — | — |
| 2005 | 298 | #849 | — | — |
| 2004 | 308 | #815 | — | — |
| 2003 | 353 | #725 | — | — |
| 2002 | 354 | #707 | — | — |
| 2001 | 311 | #767 | — | — |
| 2000 | 326 | #713 | — | — |
| 1999 | 355 | #650 | — | — |
| 1998 | 279 | #773 | — | — |
| 1997 | 299 | #720 | — | — |
| 1996 | 242 | #828 | — | — |
| 1995 | 291 | #713 | — | — |
| 1994 | 288 | #722 | — | — |
| 1993 | 262 | #784 | — | — |
| 1992 | 328 | #671 | — | — |
| 1991 | 359 | #626 | — | — |
| 1990 | 358 | #623 | — | — |
| 1989 | 357 | #601 | 6 | #7,398 |
| 1988 | 381 | #560 | — | — |
| 1987 | 447 | #481 | 5 | #7,486 |
| 1986 | 455 | #471 | — | — |
| 1985 | 606 | #374 | 6 | #6,122 |
| 1984 | 607 | #375 | — | — |
| 1983 | 647 | #349 | — | — |
| 1982 | 723 | #334 | — | — |
| 1981 | 706 | #336 | — | — |
| 1980 | 724 | #333 | — | — |
| 1979 | 714 | #327 | — | — |
| 1978 | 763 | #306 | — | — |
| 1977 | 814 | #292 | — | — |
| 1976 | 773 | #296 | — | — |
| 1975 | 838 | #287 | — | — |
| 1974 | 923 | #278 | — | — |
| 1973 | 913 | #271 | — | — |
| 1972 | 913 | #282 | — | — |
| 1971 | 782 | #334 | — | — |
| 1970 | 736 | #347 | — | — |
| 1969 | 572 | #395 | — | — |
| 1968 | 487 | #430 | — | — |
| 1967 | 305 | #537 | — | — |
| 1966 | 331 | #520 | — | — |
| 1965 | 341 | #516 | — | — |
| 1964 | 326 | #548 | 5 | #4,313 |
| 1963 | 294 | #573 | — | — |
| 1962 | 308 | #557 | — | — |
| 1961 | 287 | #593 | — | — |
| 1960 | 240 | #656 | — | — |
| 1959 | 208 | #695 | — | — |
| 1958 | 234 | #643 | — | — |
| 1957 | 162 | #794 | — | — |
| 1956 | 147 | #819 | — | — |
| 1955 | 106 | #961 | — | — |
| 1954 | 106 | #937 | — | — |
| 1953 | 118 | #865 | — | — |
| 1952 | 87 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 1951 | 88 | #999 | — | — |
| 1950 | 88 | #963 | — | — |
| 1949 | 71 | #1,066 | — | — |
| 1948 | 68 | #1,076 | — | — |
| 1947 | 50 | #1,293 | — | — |
| 1946 | 61 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 1945 | 46 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1944 | 26 | #1,633 | — | — |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,033 | — | — |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,574 | — | — |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,047 | — | — |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,353 | — | — |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,248 | — | — |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,061 | — | — |
| 1937 | 6 | #4,014 | — | — |
| 1934 | 7 | #3,617 | — | — |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,956 | — | — |
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).