Jennelle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jennelle has been given to 1,103 babies in the U.S. since 1950. 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 1981, with 53 recorded.
Babies named Jennelle, 2021
1 in 484,000
Jennelle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jennelle?
Jennelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 484,000
- 7 of 3,389,958 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 234,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 335,678 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jennelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jennelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jennelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jennelle was born before 1986 — so the typical Jennelle is around 39 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 36.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 25.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,103
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 36.4% of all recorded uses (401).
Is Jennelle 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
- —
- 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
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1981 (53)
- Years since peak
- 44
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.3% average annual change
Spellings of Jennelle
Jennelle is not the most common spelling — Janelle is, with 62.7% against Jennelle's 1.2%.
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 Jennelle is used
Across 1910–2025, Jennelle was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 352,925 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in 100,000
- 2Illinois1 in —
- 3Massachusetts1 in —
- 4Michigan1 in —
- 5New Jersey1 in —
- 6New York1 in —
- 7Pennsylvania1 in —
- 8Texas1 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. Jennelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jennelle around the world
Where Jennelle 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.
- Canada1991–2005#2,828in 2005
- South Australia2011–2011#840in 2011
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.
Jennelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jennelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jennelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.