girls:
2.8k births since 1950
#3292 (42nd percentile)
overall:
2.8k births since 1950
#5124 (34th percentile)
The name Jenise is the #5,124 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,775 recorded births since 1950. This represents the 33.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 33.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,292 (42.4% percentile) for all time with 2,775 births since 1950.
Jenise first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1950 (first recorded for girls in 1950).
For girls, Jenise reached its peak popularity in 1982, achieving the 8.2% percentile (ranked #728) with 39 births per million. The name was most common in 1982, with 39 births per million (ranked 8.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jenise ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 8.9% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jenise".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Jenise. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.5% confident that Jenise is pronounced as juh-NEES, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is jeh-NEES, at 39.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like JH AH0 N IY1 S) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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