Meaning not yet researched.
Jenni: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 13 in 2025. Its best rank was #709 in 1972.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #709 in 1972; #8,078 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jenni in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,078 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1972, at #709.
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Jenni: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 13 girls in 2025. Peak: #709 in 1972 · most girls in one year: 204 (1972).
In 2025, 13 US girls were named Jenni, making it the 8,078th most common girls’ name of the year, down 1,810 places from #6,268 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 19 girls named Jenni in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #709, reached in 1972. That year also had the most girls given the name: 204. For comparison, it was #3,453 in 2015 and #2,712 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jenni in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1945 with 6 babies. In all, 5,548 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 1,533 babies named Jenni.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 185 US girls were named Jenni; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 28. In 2025 that was about 1 in 123,636 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Jenna (148,842 babies since 1880), Jennie (127,660 babies since 1880), Jenny (92,706 babies since 1880) and Jeni (2,856 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jini, Jioni and Jinyi 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 Finnish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jini (61), Jioni (26), Jinyi (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 Jenni in the open dataset we use.
Jenni is listed as a nickname for Jennifer.
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 | 13 | #8,078 | — | — |
| 2024 | 19 | #6,268 | — | — |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,243 | — | — |
| 2022 | 28 | #4,848 | — | — |
| 2021 | 20 | #6,050 | — | — |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,458 | — | — |
| 2019 | 9 | #10,859 | — | — |
| 2018 | 18 | #6,645 | — | — |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,930 | — | — |
| 2016 | 26 | #5,204 | — | — |
| 2015 | 46 | #3,453 | — | — |
| 2014 | 60 | #2,862 | — | — |
| 2013 | 121 | #1,718 | — | — |
| 2012 | 40 | #3,875 | — | — |
| 2011 | 32 | #4,502 | — | — |
| 2010 | 33 | #4,447 | — | — |
| 2009 | 47 | #3,482 | — | — |
| 2008 | 46 | #3,546 | — | — |
| 2007 | 47 | #3,503 | — | — |
| 2006 | 44 | #3,586 | — | — |
| 2005 | 40 | #3,677 | — | — |
| 2004 | 41 | #3,594 | — | — |
| 2003 | 43 | #3,383 | — | — |
| 2002 | 43 | #3,264 | — | — |
| 2001 | 34 | #3,822 | — | — |
| 2000 | 27 | #4,466 | — | — |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,066 | — | — |
| 1998 | 43 | #2,987 | — | — |
| 1997 | 43 | #2,846 | — | — |
| 1996 | 61 | #2,216 | — | — |
| 1995 | 45 | #2,700 | — | — |
| 1994 | 45 | #2,722 | — | — |
| 1993 | 66 | #2,079 | — | — |
| 1992 | 82 | #1,779 | — | — |
| 1991 | 78 | #1,826 | — | — |
| 1990 | 90 | #1,647 | — | — |
| 1989 | 109 | #1,388 | — | — |
| 1988 | 112 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1987 | 126 | #1,168 | — | — |
| 1986 | 135 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 1985 | 160 | #965 | — | — |
| 1984 | 182 | #847 | — | — |
| 1983 | 184 | #832 | — | — |
| 1982 | 192 | #819 | — | — |
| 1981 | 163 | #922 | — | — |
| 1980 | 170 | #895 | — | — |
| 1979 | 166 | #898 | — | — |
| 1978 | 155 | #915 | — | — |
| 1977 | 156 | #908 | — | — |
| 1976 | 131 | #973 | — | — |
| 1975 | 124 | #992 | — | — |
| 1974 | 137 | #921 | — | — |
| 1973 | 160 | #822 | — | — |
| 1972 | 204 | #709 | — | — |
| 1971 | 175 | #803 | — | — |
| 1970 | 91 | #1,230 | — | — |
| 1969 | 77 | #1,283 | — | — |
| 1968 | 71 | #1,316 | — | — |
| 1967 | 52 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 1966 | 49 | #1,608 | — | — |
| 1965 | 60 | #1,430 | — | — |
| 1964 | 77 | #1,258 | — | — |
| 1963 | 65 | #1,377 | — | — |
| 1962 | 89 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1961 | 66 | #1,383 | — | — |
| 1960 | 57 | #1,461 | — | — |
| 1959 | 64 | #1,342 | — | — |
| 1958 | 38 | #1,776 | — | — |
| 1957 | 52 | #1,479 | — | — |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,125 | — | — |
| 1955 | 23 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,824 | — | — |
| 1953 | 16 | #2,742 | — | — |
| 1952 | 14 | #2,979 | — | — |
| 1951 | 12 | #3,190 | — | — |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,712 | — | — |
| 1949 | 12 | #3,074 | — | — |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,715 | — | — |
| 1947 | 11 | #3,340 | — | — |
| 1946 | 13 | #2,799 | — | — |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,257 | — | — |
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).