Jenefer

Girls' name

Possibly white, through Jennifer

Jenefer has been given to 320 babies in the U.S. since 1965. 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 1972, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Jenefer, 2003

1 in 475,000

Jenefer over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jenefer: meaning, origin, and history

Possibly white, through Jennifer

Welsh

What Jenefer means

Jenefer belongs to the name family reached through Jenefer → Jennifer → *Gwɨnnohuɨβar. Its meaning is “white”.

Origin, language, and formation

Jenefer is used in English. Its origins include Welsh.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jennifer and *Gwɨnnohuɨβar.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 320 girls were recorded with the name Jenefer between 1965 and 2003. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1972; its best national rank was #3,323 in 1972.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jenefer?

Jenefer had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2003: 1 in 475,000; 8 of 3,801,425 births
Among girls only: 1 in 228,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2003: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 329,370 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Jenefer sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 329,370 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jenefer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jenefers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jenefer was born before 1982 — so the typical Jenefer is around 43 today.

Median birth year: 1982; About 43 years old
Biggest decade: 1970s; 36.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 58.4%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 320; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1970s — 36.3% of all recorded uses (116).

Is Jenefer 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: —; 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 1972 (19)
Years since peak: 53; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 29.9% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,323; 1972

Spellings of Jenefer

Jenefer is not the most common spelling — Jennifer is, with 97.4% against Jenefer's 0.02%.

Jennifer97.4%1,471,703
Jenifer1.7%25,551
Jeniffer0.24%3,656
Jenee0.13%2,012
Jennyfer0.12%1,809
Jennefer0.10%1,498
Yenifer0.08%1,169
Jeneen0.07%1,116

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 Jenefer is used

Across 1910–2025, Jenefer was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,601,278 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 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. Jenefer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jenefer around the world

Where Jenefer 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.

South Australia
1948–1971
#724
in 1971

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jenefer by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,323; 1972
Peak year: 1972; 19 that year
First recorded: 1965
Last recorded: 2003
All-time count: 320
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Jenefer

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Jenafer Jenyfer Jennfer Jennyfer Jenniefer Jennafer Jennefer Jenisha Jenicka Jenavie Jenasis Jeneffer Jennika Jenaiah Jenesys Jeniyah Jenisis Jenifer Jeniffer Jennings Jenayah Jentri Jennnifer Jenniffer

Sibling names for Jenefer

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

Nicola Latonia Nicki Sharla Niki Trena Charisse Melonie

For a brother

Shon Shelton Darrick Douglass Alfonzo Demond Scottie Erich

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