Jenalee
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jenalee has been given to 461 babies in the U.S. since 1973. 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 1986, with 33 recorded.
Babies named Jenalee, 2019
1 in 694,000
Jenalee 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jenalee?
Jenalee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 694,000
- 5 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 336,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jenalee sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jenalee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jenalees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jenalee was born before 1991 — so the typical Jenalee is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 44.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 40.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 461
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (203).
Is Jenalee 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1986 (33)
- Years since peak
- 39
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.8% average annual change
Spellings of Jenalee
Jenalee is not the most common spelling — Annalee is, with 19.3% against Jenalee's 1.1%.
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 Jenalee is used
Across 1910–2025, Jenalee was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,571,207 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Utah1 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. Jenalee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jenalee around the world
Where Jenalee 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.
- France2010–2010#4,374in 2010
- Canada1993–1993#2,149in 1993
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Jenalee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jenalee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jenalee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.