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Jenifer vs Jeniyah

American parents have registered 25,573 Jenifers since 1880, against 563 Jeniyahs. Jenifer is still ahead, with 15 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

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

Jenifer Jeniyah

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 91 years in which either name was published, Jenifer for 90 years and Jeniyah for 1 year. The lead changed hands 2 times.

Side by side

  Jenifer Jeniyah
Total US births 25,573563
Most in one year 92341
Babies in 2025 1510
Estimated living today 24,000560
Median age today 4615
Peak year 19742008
Best rank 278th girls3,859th girls
Rank in 2025 7,133rd9,457th
First recorded 19331999
Girls / boys 25,551 / 22563 / 0

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 Jeniyahs are over 15. That is 31 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: Jenifer and Jeniyah.