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Jenavieve vs Jennie

American parents have registered 127,660 Jennies since 1880, against 997 Jenavieves. Jennie is still ahead, with 79 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jenavieve against Jennie, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jenavieve Jennie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 146 years in which either name was published, Jennie for 145 years and Jenavieve for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jenavieve Jennie
Total US births 997127,660
Most in one year 653,119
Babies in 2025 2079
Estimated living today 99037,000
Median age today 1455
Peak year 20111917
Best rank 2,695th girls81st girls
Rank in 2025 5,917th2,298th
First recorded 19881880
Girls / boys 997 / 0127,181 / 479

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Jennies alive today are over 55; half the Jenavieves are over 14. That is 41 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Jenavieve and Jennie.