How Many People Are Named Jenifer?

23,994

people named Jenifer are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 14,244 people in the US has this name

Based on 25,573 babies named Jenifer in Social Security records from 1933 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#1,453

๐Ÿ’Ž Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#775

See the top 100

Peak Year

1974

923 births

Trend

โ†’

Stable (last 10 years)

๐Ÿ“– Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English, Cornish
Pronunciation: JEN-i-fษ™r (English)
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of JENNIFER.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Jenifer in English. Counting Jenifer and these spellings together, about 1,418,091 people alive in the US have the name.

Related & Similar Names

GuenevereGuinevereGwenhwyfarJenniferBRITISHGaynorGwenevereGueniรจvreGinevraLATIN AMERICANYeniferGenevraGaenorJennyJenJenaJenae

โšง Gender Distribution

Female
99.9%
Male
0.1%

Almost all of the babies given the name Jenifer (99.9%) were girls.

๐Ÿ‘ฅ Age Distribution

The average person named Jenifer alive today is about 44 years old, and 69% are between 30 and 59. Half of them were between 34 and 53 in 2025.

Under 30 4,520
18.8%
30 to 59 16,561
69%
60 and over 2,913
12.1%

๐Ÿ“ˆ Popularity Over Time

Jenifer first appears in the records in 1933 and was given most often in 1974, to 923 babies. In 2025, 15 babies got the name.

Babies given the name each year, 1933 to 2025

๐Ÿ† Rank History

Jenifer has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #271, in 1973. In 2025 it ranked #7,280.

Girls
Rank in 2025#7,280
Best rank#271 (1973)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#304 in the 1970s

๐Ÿ“ State-Wise Distribution

People named Jenifer alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Jenifer were born in California than in any other state: about 3,416 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Jenifer was given 2.4 times as often in Utah, 1.8 times in Nevada and 1.7 times in Idaho.

California 3,416
Texas 1,914
New York 1,319
Ohio 983
Illinois 938
Florida 932
Pennsylvania 869
Michigan 842
New Jersey 644
Georgia 574
Washington 566
Utah 464
Indiana 460
Wisconsin 452
Virginia 445
Maryland 411
Missouri 404
Colorado 390
North Carolina 380
Massachusetts 363
Arizona 343
Oklahoma 343
Oregon 318
Minnesota 316
Kansas 257
Iowa 255
Tennessee 249
Alabama 231
Louisiana 212
Connecticut 212
Arkansas 184
Kentucky 177
Mississippi 145
Idaho 138
South Carolina 129
Nevada 123
Nebraska 123
District of Columbia 106
New Mexico 84
West Virginia 77
Montana 31
Rhode Island 28
South Dakota 16
Wyoming 15
North Dakota 14
Hawaii 10
New Hampshire 10
Alaska 5
Vermont 5
Maine 5

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