Jennilee
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Jennilee has been given to 483 babies in the U.S. since 1952. 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 1982, with 78 recorded.
Babies named Jennilee, 2011
1 in 523,000
Jennilee 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Jennilee?
Jennilee had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2011, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2011
- 1 in 523,000
- 7 of 3,657,935 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 251,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2011
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 362,214 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Jennilee sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2011 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 362,214 children born in 2011 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jennilee. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Jennilees were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Jennilee was born before 1985 — so the typical Jennilee is around 40 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1980s
- 72.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 40.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 483
- People you could plausibly meet
1980s — 72.3% of all recorded uses (349).
Is Jennilee 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
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1982 (78)
- Years since peak
- 43
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 37.6% average annual change
Spellings of Jennilee
Jennilee is not the most common spelling — Jennifer is, with 91.7% against Jennilee's 0.03%.
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 Jennilee is used
Across 1910–2025, Jennilee was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 709,837 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arizona1 in —
- 2California1 in —
- 3New York1 in —
- 4Pennsylvania1 in —
- 5Texas1 in —
- 6Wisconsin1 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. Jennilee has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Jennilee around the world
Where Jennilee 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.
- South Australia1969–1984#661in 1984
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Jennilee by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Jennilee
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Jennilee
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.