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Jennifer: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 501 in 2025. Its best rank was #1 in 1984.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1 in 1984; #586 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Jennifer in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#586 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1984, at #1.
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Jennifer: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 501 girls in 2025. Peak: #1 in 1984 · most girls in one year: 63,600 (1972).
In 2025, 501 US girls were named Jennifer, making it the 586th most common girls’ name of the year, down 42 places from #544 in 2024. That is 55 fewer than the 556 girls named Jennifer in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1, reached in 1984. The most girls given the name in a single year was 63,600, in 1972. For comparison, it was #251 in 2015 and #118 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Jennifer in 107 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1919 with 6 babies. In all, 1,476,540 US babies have been given the name, 99.6% of them girls and 0.3% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 583,649 babies named Jennifer.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 7,547 US girls were named Jennifer; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 1,162. In 2025 that was about 1 in 3,208 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Jennifer ranked highest in South Carolina in 2025, at #389 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Jenifer (25,573 babies since 1880), Jenniffer (2,878 babies since 1880), Jennyfer (1,809 babies since 1880) and Jennefer (1,498 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Jennipher, Jennifier and Jen are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Jen, Jenn, Jenni, Jennie and Jenny.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch, English, Spanish and Swedish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Jennipher (639), Jennifier (506), Jen (404), Ginevra (324), Jenefer (320), Jenniefer (305), Jenafer (179), Jenyfer (168), Jinnifer (148), Jeanifer (100), Jeannifer (79), Jeneffer (42), 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.
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 21 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | 13 | #389 | #351 |
| Nevada | 7 | #395 | #306 |
| Indiana | 17 | #400 | #321 |
| California | 75 | #446 | #165 |
| Kansas | 7 | #472 | #378 |
| Washington | 14 | #490 | #211 |
| Wisconsin | 10 | #495 | #255 |
| Pennsylvania | 21 | #497 | #341 |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #514 | #400 |
| New York | 31 | #538 | #228 |
| Ohio | 19 | #546 | #436 |
| Florida | 32 | #561 | #220 |
| Texas | 56 | #563 | #184 |
| North Carolina | 19 | #565 | #291 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #569 | #458 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #571 | #517 |
| Illinois | 17 | #585 | #285 |
| Arizona | 11 | #605 | #277 |
| Michigan | 13 | #615 | #511 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #656 | #294 |
| Colorado | 8 | #666 | #312 |
| Alabama | 7 | #671 | #341 |
| Missouri | 8 | #681 | #335 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #720 | #380 |
| Kentucky | 5 | #794 | #349 |
| Virginia | 9 | #800 | #254 |
| New Jersey | 9 | #801 | #224 |
| Maryland | 5 | #901 | #231 |
| Tennessee | 7 | #939 | #360 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,133 | #347 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 501 | #586 | — | — |
| 2024 | 556 | #544 | — | — |
| 2023 | 586 | #520 | — | — |
| 2022 | 630 | #501 | — | — |
| 2021 | 638 | #494 | — | — |
| 2020 | 713 | #431 | — | — |
| 2019 | 788 | #391 | — | — |
| 2018 | 921 | #344 | — | — |
| 2017 | 1,052 | #309 | — | — |
| 2016 | 1,162 | #272 | 6 | #11,335 |
| 2015 | 1,286 | #251 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,521 | #222 | 6 | #11,350 |
| 2013 | 1,692 | #192 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,928 | #164 | 5 | #13,118 |
| 2011 | 2,281 | #134 | 6 | #11,475 |
| 2010 | 2,622 | #121 | 6 | #11,386 |
| 2009 | 2,987 | #110 | 5 | #13,341 |
| 2008 | 3,797 | #84 | 15 | #5,904 |
| 2007 | 4,653 | #64 | 7 | #10,278 |
| 2006 | 5,268 | #51 | 17 | #5,178 |
| 2005 | 5,837 | #42 | 15 | #5,413 |
| 2004 | 6,545 | #39 | 23 | #3,932 |
| 2003 | 7,569 | #31 | 18 | #4,516 |
| 2002 | 8,540 | #28 | 27 | #3,301 |
| 2001 | 8,923 | #26 | 26 | #3,363 |
| 2000 | 9,390 | #26 | 32 | #2,837 |
| 1999 | 10,616 | #21 | 28 | #2,976 |
| 1998 | 10,692 | #20 | 26 | #3,050 |
| 1997 | 11,840 | #18 | 37 | #2,286 |
| 1996 | 11,732 | #19 | 35 | #2,315 |
| 1995 | 12,683 | #18 | 55 | #1,659 |
| 1994 | 14,001 | #17 | 44 | #1,911 |
| 1993 | 15,749 | #15 | 50 | #1,728 |
| 1992 | 17,819 | #11 | 58 | #1,534 |
| 1991 | 20,673 | #8 | 66 | #1,405 |
| 1990 | 22,236 | #8 | 87 | #1,168 |
| 1989 | 24,006 | #7 | 146 | #821 |
| 1988 | 27,893 | #5 | 114 | #898 |
| 1987 | 32,710 | #4 | 113 | #882 |
| 1986 | 36,187 | #4 | 163 | #708 |
| 1985 | 42,661 | #3 | 161 | #694 |
| 1984 | 50,564 | #1 | 204 | #593 |
| 1983 | 54,353 | #1 | 196 | #612 |
| 1982 | 57,120 | #1 | 183 | #638 |
| 1981 | 57,046 | #1 | 192 | #615 |
| 1980 | 58,374 | #1 | 211 | #599 |
| 1979 | 56,712 | #1 | 205 | #597 |
| 1978 | 56,314 | #1 | 203 | #591 |
| 1977 | 58,964 | #1 | 179 | #630 |
| 1976 | 59,473 | #1 | 200 | #573 |
| 1975 | 58,190 | #1 | 225 | #534 |
| 1974 | 63,107 | #1 | 185 | #586 |
| 1973 | 62,448 | #1 | 220 | #530 |
| 1972 | 63,600 | #1 | 190 | #578 |
| 1971 | 56,771 | #1 | 194 | #593 |
| 1970 | 46,150 | #1 | 119 | #754 |
| 1969 | 33,705 | #3 | 98 | #779 |
| 1968 | 26,853 | #4 | 66 | #888 |
| 1967 | 18,236 | #10 | 67 | #881 |
| 1966 | 18,215 | #10 | 52 | #1,011 |
| 1965 | 15,207 | #20 | 34 | #1,326 |
| 1964 | 12,955 | #31 | 34 | #1,361 |
| 1963 | 11,757 | #36 | 25 | #1,607 |
| 1962 | 10,977 | #41 | 24 | #1,645 |
| 1961 | 9,265 | #47 | 31 | #1,450 |
| 1960 | 7,243 | #61 | 13 | #2,370 |
| 1959 | 6,233 | #78 | 10 | #2,726 |
| 1958 | 5,882 | #81 | 13 | #2,313 |
| 1957 | 5,483 | #87 | 12 | #2,430 |
| 1956 | 4,711 | #97 | 8 | #3,078 |
| 1955 | 4,123 | #104 | — | — |
| 1954 | 3,966 | #108 | 10 | #2,659 |
| 1953 | 3,375 | #116 | 8 | #3,029 |
| 1952 | 3,527 | #107 | 6 | #3,545 |
| 1951 | 2,973 | #119 | 9 | #2,760 |
| 1950 | 2,802 | #118 | 8 | #2,891 |
| 1949 | 2,618 | #121 | — | — |
| 1948 | 1,882 | #151 | — | — |
| 1947 | 2,010 | #145 | — | — |
| 1946 | 1,733 | #156 | 6 | #3,344 |
| 1945 | 985 | #200 | — | — |
| 1944 | 684 | #263 | — | — |
| 1943 | 337 | #397 | — | — |
| 1942 | 198 | #527 | — | — |
| 1941 | 136 | #605 | — | — |
| 1940 | 102 | #689 | — | — |
| 1939 | 62 | #893 | — | — |
| 1938 | 51 | #997 | — | — |
| 1937 | 38 | #1,167 | — | — |
| 1936 | 42 | #1,091 | — | — |
| 1935 | 36 | #1,190 | — | — |
| 1934 | 41 | #1,112 | — | — |
| 1933 | 30 | #1,323 | — | — |
| 1932 | 25 | #1,543 | — | — |
| 1931 | 26 | #1,472 | — | — |
| 1930 | 17 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 1929 | 17 | #2,050 | — | — |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,958 | — | — |
| 1927 | 5 | #5,186 | — | — |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,395 | — | — |
| 1925 | 9 | #3,506 | — | — |
| 1924 | 11 | #3,061 | — | — |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,496 | — | — |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,220 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,491 | — | — |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,172 | — | — |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,507 | — | — |
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).