Jenessa
#8,362 for girls in 2025, 12 births
- Peak · girls
- 1991 · 156 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 3,221since 1968
Jenessa over time
Rank among girls' names. Jenessa has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
|---|---|---|
| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #8,362 | 12 |
| 2024 | #6,167 | 19 |
| 2023 | #7,247 | 15 |
| 2022 | #5,465 | 23 |
| 2021 | #5,091 | 25 |
| 2020 | #4,648 | 28 |
| 2019 | #5,612 | 22 |
| 2018 | #5,454 | 23 |
| 2017 | #3,387 | 46 |
| 2016 | #3,139 | 52 |
| 2015 | #2,927 | 59 |
| 2014 | #2,615 | 67 |
| 2013 | #2,568 | 69 |
| 2012 | #2,426 | 76 |
| 2011 | #2,000 | 98 |
| 2010 | #2,614 | 69 |
| 2009 | #2,643 | 69 |
| 2008 | #2,397 | 80 |
| 2007 | #2,101 | 96 |
| 2006 | #2,538 | 72 |
| 2005 | #1,719 | 115 |
| 2004 | #1,756 | 109 |
| 2003 | #1,813 | 103 |
| 2002 | #1,821 | 98 |
| 2001 | #1,995 | 85 |
| 2000 | #2,332 | 66 |
| 1999 | #1,940 | 81 |
| 1998 | #2,164 | 66 |
| 1997 | #2,138 | 65 |
| 1996 | #2,451 | 52 |
| 1995 | #2,052 | 66 |
| 1994 | #1,770 | 82 |
| 1993 | #1,763 | 83 |
| 1992 | #1,661 | 91 |
| 1991 | #1,137 | 156 |
| 1990 | #1,364 | 116 |
| 1989 | #1,686 | 81 |
| 1988 | #1,863 | 66 |
| 1987 | #1,553 | 81 |
| 1986 | #1,910 | 58 |
| 1985 | #1,666 | 70 |
| 1984 | #1,362 | 87 |
| 1983 | #2,198 | 44 |
| 1982 | #1,965 | 53 |
| 1981 | #2,342 | 42 |
| 1980 | #2,800 | 32 |
| 1979 | #2,304 | 41 |
| 1978 | #2,942 | 27 |
| 1977 | #3,761 | 19 |
| 1976 | #4,363 | 14 |
| 1975 | #9,067 | 5 |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 |
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| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 |
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| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jenessa! It came in at #6,246, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1971, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Jenessa
- 2,195 spots since 2024 (#6,167 → #8,362)
- 3,714 spots since 2020 (#4,648 → #8,362)
- 5,435 spots since 2015 (#2,927 → #8,362)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1991 at #1,137 (156 births)
- Births halved by 1995, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,019 girls born in 1991 were named Jenessa (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 133,939 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 27.7% of all girls named Jenessa (893) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 6 | #6,246 (1968) | #6,246 |
| 1970s | 147 | #2,304 (1979) | #4,925 |
| 1980s | 614 | #1,362 (1984) | #1,935 |
| 1990s | 858 | #1,137 (1991) | #1,844 |
| 2000s | 893 | #1,719 (2005) | #2,112 |
| 2010s | 581 | #2,000 (2011) | #3,274 |
| 2020s | 122 | #4,648 (2020) | #6,163 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Jenessa in 2003
Top girls' names in 2003
More about 2003
girls
1,827,145 girls got a published name in 2003; 1 in 17,739 of them was named Jenessa, which outranked 90.2% of the 18,439 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,802Leona104
- #1,802Marlena104
- #1,802Olyvia104
- #1,813Jenessa103
- #1,813Ayesha103
- #1,813Beth103
- #1,813Brigitte103
- #1,823Cathryn102
- #1,823Evie102
- #1,823Hadassah102
Tied with 9 names at #1,813; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.