Jenise
#9,457 for girls in 2025, 10 births
- Peak · girls
- 1960 · 57 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,795since 1950
Jenise over time
Rank among girls' names. Jenise 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 | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #9,457 | 10 |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 |
| 2023 | #13,462 | 6 |
| 2022 | #9,680 | 10 |
| 2021 | #13,464 | 6 |
| 2020 | #8,953 | 11 |
| 2019 | #12,448 | 7 |
| 2018 | #6,010 | 20 |
| 2017 | #6,808 | 17 |
| 2016 | #9,411 | 11 |
| 2015 | #8,447 | 13 |
| 2014 | #6,207 | 20 |
| 2013 | #6,462 | 19 |
| 2012 | #7,144 | 17 |
| 2011 | #6,335 | 20 |
| 2010 | #4,974 | 28 |
| 2009 | #5,709 | 24 |
| 2008 | #4,550 | 33 |
| 2007 | #4,475 | 33 |
| 2006 | #6,125 | 21 |
| 2005 | #3,876 | 37 |
| 2004 | #4,492 | 30 |
| 2003 | #4,804 | 26 |
| 2002 | #3,978 | 32 |
| 2001 | #3,785 | 34 |
| 2000 | #5,151 | 22 |
| 1999 | #4,445 | 25 |
| 1998 | #3,353 | 36 |
| 1997 | #3,036 | 39 |
| 1996 | #2,901 | 41 |
| 1995 | #2,880 | 41 |
| 1994 | #2,935 | 40 |
| 1993 | #2,417 | 52 |
| 1992 | #2,295 | 57 |
| 1991 | #2,519 | 49 |
| 1990 | #2,053 | 65 |
| 1989 | #2,408 | 48 |
| 1988 | #2,051 | 57 |
| 1987 | #2,065 | 53 |
| 1986 | #2,195 | 47 |
| 1985 | #1,666 | 70 |
| 1984 | #1,837 | 58 |
| 1983 | #1,927 | 53 |
| 1982 | #1,641 | 70 |
| 1981 | #1,734 | 65 |
| 1980 | #1,785 | 61 |
| 1979 | #2,343 | 40 |
| 1978 | #1,987 | 48 |
| 1977 | #2,091 | 45 |
| 1976 | #1,996 | 44 |
| 1975 | #1,906 | 47 |
| 1974 | #1,848 | 47 |
| 1973 | #2,267 | 34 |
| 1972 | #1,607 | 56 |
| 1971 | #1,805 | 49 |
| 1970 | #1,877 | 46 |
| 1969 | #1,755 | 48 |
| 1968 | #1,728 | 46 |
| 1967 | #1,640 | 48 |
| 1966 | #1,916 | 36 |
| 1965 | #1,500 | 55 |
| 1964 | #1,731 | 45 |
| 1963 | #1,565 | 52 |
| 1962 | #1,607 | 49 |
| 1961 | #1,499 | 56 |
| 1960 | #1,454 | 57 |
| 1959 | #1,567 | 48 |
| 1958 | #1,939 | 32 |
| 1957 | #1,550 | 48 |
| 1956 | #1,968 | 30 |
| 1955 | #1,617 | 40 |
| 1954 | #1,769 | 34 |
| 1953 | #2,017 | 26 |
| 1952 | #2,581 | 17 |
| 1951 | #2,182 | 21 |
| 1950 | #4,315 | 7 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Jenise! It came in at #4,315, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 2021, when fewer than 7 girls a year got the name.
Where Jenise is popular in 1985
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Michigan#831 · 1 in 9,544
- New York#1,131 · 1 in 11,877
- Florida#1,222 · 1 in 13,051
- Illinois#1,239 · 1 in 14,599
- Texas#1,523 · 1 in 19,050
Best ever in a state: #632 in Michigan, 1955.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Michigan | #831 | 6 | 1 in 9,544 |
| New York | #1,131 | 9 | 1 in 11,877 |
| Florida | #1,222 | 5 | 1 in 13,051 |
| Illinois | #1,239 | 5 | 1 in 14,599 |
| Texas | #1,523 | 7 | 1 in 19,050 |
| California | #1,829 | 8 | 1 in 25,282 |
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See more about Jenise
- 99 spots since 2024 (#9,556 → #9,457)
- 504 spots since 2020 (#8,953 → #9,457)
- 1,010 spots since 2015 (#8,447 → #9,457)
- Debuted 1950
- Peaked 1960 at #1,454 (57 births)
- Births halved by 1999, 39 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,190 girls born in 1982 were named Jenise (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 160,727 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,454 in 1960, was only 1 in 35,473 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 20.8% of all girls named Jenise (582) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 303 | #1,550 (1957) | #2,151 |
| 1960s | 492 | #1,454 (1960) | #1,640 |
| 1970s | 456 | #1,607 (1972) | #1,973 |
| 1980s | 582 | #1,641 (1982) | #1,931 |
| 1990s | 445 | #2,053 (1990) | #2,883 |
| 2000s | 292 | #3,785 (2001) | #4,695 |
| 2010s | 172 | #4,974 (2010) | #7,425 |
| 2020s | 53 | #8,953 (2020) | #10,762 |
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.
Jenise in 1985
Top girls' names in 1985
More about 1985
girls
1,720,828 girls got a published name in 1985; 1 in 24,583 of them was named Jenise, which outranked 86.7% of the 12,505 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 18.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,650Sheana71
- #1,650Travis71
- #1,650Vanna71
- #1,666Jenise70
- #1,666Aliza70
- #1,666Jenee70
- #1,666Jenessa70
- #1,680Anjelica69
- #1,680Carlyn69
- #1,680Coleen69
Tied with 13 names at #1,666; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.