Jene
About 2,218 American babies have been named Jene since 1915, most of them around 1987. It is given to both boys and girls. It has not appeared in the national data since 2008. About 1,400 Jenes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 48.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jene boys named Jene
Girls and boys called Jene
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Jene crossed from boys to girls in 1951, having already crossed in 1925, and has stayed there for 27 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% girls, which is roughly where it still is.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 43 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,218
- Estimated living today
- 1,400
- Median age today
- 48
- Peak year
- 1987
- Best rank
- 2,332nd
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 1,572 / 646
How old the living Jenes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,218 babies given the name since 1915, about 1,400 are alive — 65 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1977 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Jene is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jene is most concentrated in California (6.6×), Louisiana (5.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1987
The most popular girls’ names the year Jene peaked:
Jene among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Jene | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Jene against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.