girls:
25.5k births since 1933
#890 (84th percentile)
boys:
22 births since 1964
#4564 (0th percentile)
overall:
25.5k births since 1933
#1588 (79th percentile)
The name Jenifer is the #1,588 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 25,536 recorded births since 1933. This represents the 79.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 79.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #890 (84.4% percentile) for all time with 25,514 births since 1933. For boys, it ranks #4,564 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 22 births since 1964.
Jenifer first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1933 (1933 for girls and 1964 for boys). Birth data for Jenifer is available in 89 out of the 91 years between 1933 and 2023 (89 years for girls and 4 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 Jenifer has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jenifer reached its peak popularity in 1973, achieving the 64.8% percentile (ranked #261) with 587 births per million. The name was most common in 1974, with 589 births per million (ranked 64.6% percentile). Despite a low point in 2020, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Jenifer ranks #940 for girls (0.7% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 1.2% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jenifer reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #752) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1989.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jenifer".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Jenifer", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 28 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Jennifer" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Jennifer..
Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jenifer. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.1% confident that Jenifer is pronounced as JEH-nih-fer, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-nuh-fer, at 35.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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