Jenifer
Jenifer is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 22 births. Its best rank was 271st, in 1973.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 220.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 1974923 births
- Best rank
- #271in 1973
- Since 1933
- 25,536people given the name
The story in the numbers
25,536 girls have been named Jenifer in the United States since 1933, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1974, with 923 births.
The name has all but left use: 22 births in 2024, against 923 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1979, and the 1970s alone account for 32%. It has spent 55 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jenifer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 39 | |
| 1940s | 399 | |
| 1950s | 1,344 | |
| 1960s | 3,491 | |
| 1970s | 8,169 | |
| 1980s | 5,653 | |
| 1990s | 3,061 | |
| 2000s | 2,828 | |
| 2010s | 467 | |
| 2020s | 85 |
In 1974, its biggest year
Jenifer was the 278th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1974 were Jennifer, Amy, Michelle, Heather and Angela. See all of 1974.
Names that rose and fell with Jenifer
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Katrenapeak 1972
- Janelpeak 1971
- Anglepeak 1975
- Meridithpeak 1971
- Marivelpeak 1981
- Melisapeak 1979
- Demetriapeak 1974
- Jennifferpeak 1972
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.