Jennie
Jennie is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 115 births. Its best rank was 24th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1150.01% of girls
- Peak year
- 19173,109 births
- Best rank
- #24in 1880
- Since 1880
- 127,102people given the name
The story in the numbers
127,102 girls have been named Jennie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1917, with 3,109 births — 0.29% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 115 births in 2024, against 3,109 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1923, and the 1910s alone account for 18%. It has spent 118 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 42 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jennie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10,220 | |
| 1890s | 11,876 | |
| 1900s | 9,988 | |
| 1910s | 23,068 | |
| 1920s | 22,591 | |
| 1930s | 9,488 | |
| 1940s | 7,014 | |
| 1950s | 7,587 | |
| 1960s | 5,979 | |
| 1970s | 7,754 | |
| 1980s | 6,465 | |
| 1990s | 2,836 | |
| 2000s | 1,250 | |
| 2010s | 607 | |
| 2020s | 379 |
In 1917, its biggest year
Jennie was the 81st most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1917 were Mary, Helen, Dorothy, Margaret and Ruth. See all of 1917.
Names that rose and fell with Jennie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Fannypeak 1916
- Edapeak 1916
- Idapeak 1918
- Nelliepeak 1918
- Nettiepeak 1918
- Lydapeak 1916
- Dorapeak 1921
- Addiepeak 1920
Other spellings in the data
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.