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Jenine

#13,942 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Jenine has been given to 2,263 babies in the U.S. since 1932. In 2025 it ranked #13,942 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1970, with 87 recorded.

Babies named Jenine, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jenine: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jenine means

Jenine is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Jenine is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,263 girls were recorded with the name Jenine between 1932 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 87 in 1970; its best national rank was #1,265 in 1970.

Over 10 years its rank fell, from #12,325 in 2015 to #13,942 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Jenine?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#13,942
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jenine 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jenine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jenines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jenine was born before 1973 — so the typical Jenine is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
29.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.1%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
2,154
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 29.1% of all recorded uses (659).

Is Jenine 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
+287
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,617
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.75×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
6.9%
Peak was 1970 (87)
Years since peak
55
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,265
1970

Spellings of Jenine

Jenine is not the most common spelling — Janice is, with 25.2% against Jenine's 0.14%.

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 Jenine is used

Across 1910–2025, Jenine was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 75,356 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 33,333
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Michigan1 in 100,000
  4. 4New Jersey1 in 100,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 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. Jenine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jenine around the world

Where Jenine 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
    1997–2025
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • France
    2002–2024
    #5,103
    in 2024
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1953–1985
    #671
    in 1985

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jenine by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#13,942
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#1,265
1970
Peak year
1970
87 that year
First recorded
1932
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,263
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Jenine

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

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Names with a curve like Jenine

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

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Sibling names for Jenine

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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