girls:
127 births since 2010
#5589 (2nd percentile)
overall:
127 births since 2010
#7612 (2nd percentile)
The name Jenaiah is the #7,612 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 127 recorded births since 2010. This represents the 1.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,589 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 127 births since 2010.
Jenaiah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2010 (first recorded for girls in 2010). Birth data for Jenaiah is available in 7 out of the 14 years between 2010 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Jenaiah reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 3.1% percentile (ranked #916) with 19 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 19 births per million (ranked 3.1% percentile). Over the past 5 years, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Jenaiah ranks #926 for girls (2.2% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 80.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jenaiah".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jenaiah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 53.1% confident that Jenaiah is pronounced as jeh-NAI-uh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jeh-NAY-uh, at 21.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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