Gennifer
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Gennifer has been given to 1,166 babies in the U.S. since 1957. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1982, with 50 recorded.
Babies named Gennifer, 2010
1 in 739,000
Gennifer over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Gennifer?
Gennifer had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2010
- 1 in 739,000
- 5 of 3,695,928 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 355,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2010
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 512,366 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Gennifer sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 512,366 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Gennifer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Gennifers were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Gennifer was born before 1981 — so the typical Gennifer is around 44 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 33.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 32.8%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,166
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 33.8% of all recorded uses (394).
Is Gennifer rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1982 (50)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.6% average annual change
Spellings of Gennifer
Gennifer is not the most common spelling — Jennifer is, with 97.4% against Gennifer's 0.08%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Gennifer is used
Across 1910–2025, Gennifer was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 480,856 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Florida1 in —
- 3Illinois1 in —
- 4Michigan1 in —
- 5New York1 in —
- 6Ohio1 in —
- 7Pennsylvania1 in —
- 8Texas1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Gennifer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Gennifer around the world
Where Gennifer ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France1974–1980#2,893in 1980
- South Australia1952–1968#679in 1968
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Gennifer by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Gennifer
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Gennifer
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.