girls:
147.7k births since 1915
#266 (95th percentile)
boys:
256 births since 1981
#4330 (6th percentile)
overall:
148k births since 1915
#505 (93rd percentile)
The name Jenna is the #505 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 147,996 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 93.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 93.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #266 (95.4% percentile) for all time with 147,740 births since 1915. For boys, it ranks #4,330 (5.5% percentile) for all time with 256 births since 1981.
Jenna first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for girls and 1981 for boys). Birth data for Jenna is available in 107 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (107 years for girls and 21 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 Jenna has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.8% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Jenna reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 95.1% percentile (ranked #45) with 3,101 births per million. The name was most common in 1985, with 3,486 births per million (ranked 93.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2003, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Jenna ranks #527 for girls (44.4% percentile) with 269 births per million, which is 7.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Jenna reached its peak popularity in 1987, achieving the 2.7% percentile (ranked #694) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 13 births per million (ranked 2.6% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jenna".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Jenna is pronounced as JEH-nuh, which has 2 syllables.
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