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Jenniffer

Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Jenniffer has been given to 2,878 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 1972, with 125 recorded.

Babies named Jenniffer, 2012

1 in 523,000

Jenniffer over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jenniffer: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jenniffer means

Jenniffer is a given name.

The naming story behind Jenniffer

Wikidata records Jenniffer as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q61747497, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,878 girls were recorded with the name Jenniffer between 1947 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 125 in 1972; its best national rank was #968 in 1972.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Jenniffer?

Jenniffer had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2012, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2012
1 in 523,000
7 of 3,657,590 births
Among girls only
1 in 252,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2012
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
362,179 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jenniffer sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2012 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 362,179 children born in 2012 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jenniffer. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jenniffers were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jenniffer was born before 1979 — so the typical Jenniffer is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
36.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
26.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,871
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1970s — 36.1% of all recorded uses (1,040).

Is Jenniffer 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 1972 (125)
Years since peak
53
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
16.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#968
1972

Spellings of Jenniffer

Jenniffer is not the most common spelling — Jennifer is, with 97.3% against Jenniffer's 0.19%.

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 Jenniffer is used

Across 1910–2025, Jenniffer was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 85,479 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 33,333
  2. 2Florida1 in 50,000
  3. 3New York1 in 50,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 50,000
  5. 5Illinois1 in 100,000
  6. 6Indiana1 in 100,000
  7. 7Michigan1 in 100,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 in 100,000

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. Jenniffer has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jenniffer around the world

Where Jenniffer 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.

  • Scotland
    1988–1988
    #577
    in 1988
  • France
    1985–1985
    #2,189
    in 1985
  • South Australia
    1954–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Jenniffer

People whose public names include Jenniffer, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Jenniffer in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Jenniffer. Linked forms have their own page here.

Jennifer

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Jenniffer by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#968
1972
Peak year
1972
125 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
2,878
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jenniffer

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Jenniffer

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Jenniffer, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Jenniffer

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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