Jennessy
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jennessy has been given to 161 babies in the U.S. since 2000. 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 2008, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Jennessy, 2024
1 in 669,000
Jennessy 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jennessy?
Jennessy had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 669,000
- 5 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 324,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 463,412 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jennessy sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jennessy. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jennessys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jennessy was born before 2011 — so the typical Jennessy is around 14 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 43.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 161
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (70).
Is Jennessy 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 2008 (13)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.6% average annual change
Spellings of Jennessy
Jennessy is not the most common spelling — Jenessa is, with 53.0% against Jennessy's 2.6%.
Where Jennessy is used
Across 1910–2025, Jennessy was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,601,278 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. Jennessy has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jennessy by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jennessy
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jennessy
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.