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Jeniece vs Jenifer

American parents have registered 25,573 Jenifers since 1880, against 508 Jenieces. Jenifer is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Jeniece against Jenifer, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Jeniece Jenifer

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

Jenifer has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1933 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 2015, when Jeniece had 5 and Jenifer had 31.

Side by side

  Jeniece Jenifer
Total US births 50825,573
Most in one year 22923
Babies in 2025 under 515
Estimated living today 49024,000
Median age today 3846
Peak year 19931974
Best rank 4,524th girls278th girls
Rank in 2025 unranked7,133rd
First recorded 19531933
Girls / boys 508 / 025,551 / 22

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 Jenifers alive today are over 46; half the Jenieces are over 38. That is 8 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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