Jenissa
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jenissa has been given to 193 babies in the U.S. since 1981. 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 2003, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Jenissa, 2014
1 in 530,000
Jenissa 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jenissa?
Jenissa had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2014, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2014
- 1 in 530,000
- 7 of 3,706,812 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 255,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2014
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 367,053 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jenissa sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2014 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 367,053 children born in 2014 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jenissa. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jenissas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jenissa was born before 2002 — so the typical Jenissa is around 23 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 45.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 88.6%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 193
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 45.1% of all recorded uses (87).
Is Jenissa 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 2003 (13)
- Years since peak
- 22
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 22.8% average annual change
Spellings of Jenissa
Jenissa is not the most common spelling — Melissa is, with 85.4% against Jenissa's 0.02%.
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.
Jenissa around the world
Where Jenissa 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 & Wales2024–2024#5,892in 2024
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Jenissa by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jenissa
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jenissa
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.