Jenelle

Where Jenelle comes from

Jenelle hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1917
    First appearance
    #4,083 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1972
    Jenelle Riley born
    American screenwriter, actress, journalist, and producer
  3. 1981
    Peak, #688
    253 babies named Jenelle — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1993
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,451.
  5. 1994
    Jenelle Crooks born
    Australian bicycle racer
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Jenelle Crooks · Australian bicycle racer, born 1994
  • Jenelle Riley · American screenwriter, actress, journalist, and producer, born 1972

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.