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Jenise

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Jenise is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 10 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
100.00% of girls
Peak year
198270 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1950
2,785people given the name
Babies named Jenise, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

2,785 girls have been named Jenise in the United States since 1950, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1982, with 70 births.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1982, and the 1980s alone account for 21%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Jenise
1950s303
1960s492
1970s456
1980s582
1990s445
2000s292
2010s172
2020s43

In 1982, its biggest year

Jenise was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1982 were Jennifer, Jessica, Amanda, Sarah and Melissa. See all of 1982.

Names that rose and fell with Jenise

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.