Jenina
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jenina has been given to 87 babies in the U.S. since 1975. 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 1980, with 14 recorded.
Babies named Jenina, 2005
1 in 769,000
Jenina 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jenina?
Jenina had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 769,000
- 5 of 3,844,258 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 369,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,928 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jenina sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jenina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jeninas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jenina was born before 1982 — so the typical Jenina is around 43 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 63.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 66.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 87
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 63.2% of all recorded uses (55).
Is Jenina 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 1980 (14)
- Years since peak
- 45
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.4% average annual change
Spellings of Jenina
Jenina is not the most common spelling — Regina is, with 19.9% against Jenina's <0.01%.
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.
Jenina around the world
Where Jenina 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 & Wales2025–2025#5,927in 2025
- South Australia1973–1986#667in 1986
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jenina by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jenina
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jenina
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.