girls:
1.6k births since 1915
#4182 (27th percentile)
boys:
646 births since 1915
#3941 (14th percentile)
overall:
2.2k births since 1915
#5576 (28th percentile)
The name Jene is the #5,576 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,218 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 27.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 27.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,182 (26.8% percentile) for all time with 1,572 births since 1915. For boys, it ranks #3,941 (14.0% percentile) for all time with 646 births since 1915.
Jene first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 . Birth data for Jene is available in 93 out of the 94 years between 1915 and 2008 (92 years for girls and 60 years for boys). 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.
The name Jene has been given predominantly to girls, with 70.9% of all recorded births being female. In 2008, 100.0% of babies named Jene were girls.
For girls, Jene reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 5.0% percentile (ranked #762) with 24 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 24 births per million (ranked 5.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
For boys, Jene reached its peak popularity in 1927, achieving the 3.9% percentile (ranked #518) with 22 births per million. The name was most common in 1927, with 22 births per million (ranked 3.9% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jene".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jene. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 67.6% confident that Jene is pronounced as jeen, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jehn, at 32.4% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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