Jenita
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jenita has been given to 473 babies in the U.S. since 1936. 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 1977, with 20 recorded.
Babies named Jenita, 2006
1 in 791,000
Jenita 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jenita?
Jenita had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2006
- 1 in 791,000
- 5 of 3,956,166 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 380,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2006
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 548,442 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jenita sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2006 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jenita. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jenitas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jenita was born before 1974 — so the typical Jenita is around 51 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1970s
- 27.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 440
- People you could plausibly meet
1970s — 27.7% of all recorded uses (131).
Is Jenita 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 1977 (20)
- Years since peak
- 48
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.2% average annual change
Spellings of Jenita
Jenita is not the most common spelling — Anita is, with 25.9% against Jenita's 0.06%.
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 Jenita is used
Across 1910–2025, Jenita was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 3,202,555 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 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. Jenita has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jenita around the world
Where Jenita 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 & Wales2010–2022#4,646in 2022
- South Australia1951–2013#818in 2013
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.
Jenita by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jenita
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jenita
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.