Jenelle
Jenelle is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 17 births. Its best rank was 688th, in 1981.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 170.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1981253 births
- Best rank
- #688in 1981
- Since 1917
- 7,185people given the name
The story in the numbers
7,185 girls have been named Jenelle in the United States since 1917, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1981, with 253 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1985, and the 1980s alone account for 29%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jenelle | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 13 | |
| 1920s | 89 | |
| 1930s | 127 | |
| 1940s | 142 | |
| 1950s | 229 | |
| 1960s | 426 | |
| 1970s | 1,174 | |
| 1980s | 2,106 | |
| 1990s | 1,101 | |
| 2000s | 778 | |
| 2010s | 825 | |
| 2020s | 175 |
In 1981, its biggest year
Jenelle was the 688th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1981 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1981.
Names that rose and fell with Jenelle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jennellepeak 1981
- Reenapeak 1980
- Janellepeak 1979
- Adriannpeak 1978
- Jaymepeak 1985
- Adriannepeak 1983
- Aliciapeak 1984
- Carapeak 1985
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.