Jennifer

girls:

1.5M births since 1919

#4 (100th percentile)

boys:

4.8k births since 1946

#1724 (62nd percentile)

overall:

1.5M births since 1919

#19 (100th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Jennifer".

1919 2023 19192023

Key Statistics

Total Births
1,470,608
Peak Births
63,605
Peak Year
1970
First Recorded
1919
Peak Percentile
100.0%
Current Percentile
51.6%
Peak Rank
#1
Current Rank
#459
Female statistics
Total Births
4,836
Peak Births
225
Peak Year
1975
First Recorded
1946
Peak Percentile
31.4%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#451
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Jennifer

Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Jennifer. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 82.5% confident that Jennifer is pronounced as JEH-nuh-fer. The next most likely pronunciation is JEH-nih-fer, at 17.5% confidence.

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Jennifer. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Jennifer, please vote using the thumbs up button.

JA-nih-fer (3 syllables)
2 names 1.2k births
JH AE1 N IH0 F ER0

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JA-nuh-fer (3 syllables)
2 names 1.2k births
JH AE1 N AH0 F ER0

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like JH EH1 N AH0 F ER0) 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.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.