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Jenica

#11,347 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jenica has been given to 2,079 babies in the U.S. since 1970. In 2025 it ranked #11,347 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1981, with 94 recorded.

Babies named Jenica, 2025

1 in 414,000

Jenica over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jenica: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jenica means

Jenica is a given name.

The naming story behind Jenica

Wikidata records Jenica as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q98669176, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,079 girls were recorded with the name Jenica between 1970 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 94 in 1981; its best national rank was #1,329 in 1981.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,362 in 2020 to #11,347 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #6,330 in 2015 to #11,347 in 2025.

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.

How common is Jenica?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,347
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jenica 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 2025 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jenica. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jenicas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jenica was born before 1993 — so the typical Jenica is around 32 today.

Median birth year
1993
About 32 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
31.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,079
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 31.6% of all recorded uses (657).

Is Jenica 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
−1,493
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−3,985
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,017
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.40×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.5%
Peak was 1981 (94)
Years since peak
44
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,329
1981

Spellings of Jenica

Jenica is not the most common spelling — Jessica is, with 46.4% against Jenica's 0.09%.

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 Jenica is used

Across 1910–2025, Jenica was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 168,209 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in —
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7Minnesota1 in —
  8. 8New York1 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. Jenica has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jenica around the world

Where Jenica 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.

  • England & Wales
    2010–2024
    #5,892
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #3,391
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    2012–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jenica

People whose public names include Jenica, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jenica by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,347
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 3,985
Best rank ever
#1,329
1981
Peak year
1981
94 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,079
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Jenica

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

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Names with a curve like Jenica

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jenica, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jenica

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

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