Jennell
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jennell has been given to 1,301 babies in the U.S. since 1910. 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 1979, with 54 recorded.
Babies named Jennell, 2019
1 in 694,000
Jennell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jennell?
Jennell had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2019
- 1 in 694,000
- 5 of 3,472,229 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 336,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2019
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 481,354 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jennell sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2019 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 481,354 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jennell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jennells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jennell was born before 1977 — so the typical Jennell is around 48 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 24.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 9.9%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,110
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 24.0% of all recorded uses (312).
Is Jennell 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1979 (54)
- Years since peak
- 46
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 31.2% average annual change
Spellings of Jennell
Jennell is not the most common spelling — Jewell is, with 35.5% against Jennell's 1.6%.
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 Jennell is used
Across 1910–2025, Jennell was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 390,952 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Michigan1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Washington1 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. Jennell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jennell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jennell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jennell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.