Jennings
Jennings is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 80 births. Its best rank was 247th, in 1897.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 800.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1926113 births
- Best rank
- #247in 1897
- Since 1892
- 5,090people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,792 boys have been named Jennings in the United States since 1892, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1926, with 113 births.
It is rising: its share of births is at least one and a half times what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1943, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 298 girls have also been given it, 5.9% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Jennings | |
|---|---|---|
| 1890s | 159 | |
| 1900s | 107 | |
| 1910s | 462 | |
| 1920s | 893 | |
| 1930s | 600 | |
| 1940s | 497 | |
| 1950s | 339 | |
| 1960s | 223 | |
| 1970s | 151 | |
| 1980s | 164 | |
| 1990s | 155 | |
| 2000s | 161 | |
| 2010s | 481 | |
| 2020s | 400 |
In 1926, its biggest year
Jennings was the 590th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1926 were Robert, John, James, William and Charles. See all of 1926.
Names that rose and fell with Jennings
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Hobertpeak 1922
- Deweypeak 1898
- Hobartpeak 1921
- Barnettpeak 1923
- Murrypeak 1917
- Simmiepeak 1918
- Hurleypeak 1919
- Gloverpeak 1915
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.