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Jenise

#9,741 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jenise has been given to 2,795 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #9,741 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1982, with 70 recorded.

Babies named Jenise, 2025

1 in 332,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jenise: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jenise means

Jenise is a given name.

The naming story behind Jenise

Wikidata records Jenise as a given name. The entity identifier is Q110861756, 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, 2,795 girls were recorded with the name Jenise between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 70 in 1982; its best national rank was #1,459 in 1960.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,199 in 2020 to #9,741 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #8,663 in 2015 to #9,741 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 Jenise?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 161,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#9,741
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jenise 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 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jenise. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jenises were born

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

Median birth year
1982
About 43 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
20.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
17.7%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,795
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 20.8% of all recorded uses (582).

Is Jenise 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
+114
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−542
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,078
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.77×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.3%
Peak was 1982 (70)
Years since peak
43
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
33.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,459
1960

Spellings of Jenise

Jenise is not the most common spelling — Janice is, with 31.4% against Jenise's 0.22%.

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 Jenise is used

Across 1910–2025, Jenise was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 106,790 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Illinois1 in 100,000
  5. 5Michigan1 in 100,000
  6. 6Texas1 in 100,000
  7. 7New Jersey1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Jenise has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jenise around the world

Where Jenise 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.

  • Canada
    1992–2002
    #2,580
    in 2002
  • South Australia
    1956–1983
    #686
    in 1983

Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jenise by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,741
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 542
Best rank ever
#1,459
1960
Peak year
1982
70 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,795
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Jenise

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

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Names with a curve like Jenise

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

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Sibling names for Jenise

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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