Jennifer

What Jennifer means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Jennifer yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1972, with 63,600 babies; 501 in 2025 Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Jennifer?

US: Falling: down from #251 in 2015. England & Wales: Falling: down from #224 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 1974, when 63,107 girls got the name (#1 that year). First in the US records in 1919.

How common

• About 1 in 3,208 baby girls in the US in 2025
• About 1 in 4,293 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NV (0.76 per 1,000 girls), SC (0.71 per 1,000 girls), IN (0.61 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Jennifer is #586 in the US and #650 in England & Wales (2025).

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Jennifer were girls.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

IPA from Wiktionary.

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Jenifer15 US
• Jennyfer6 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

Spelling variants on Wiktionary

• Jenifer
• Jenipher

Listed as alternative forms on Wiktionary.

If you like Jennifer

Girls

• Megan#887Diminutive of Margaret, meaning “pearl”^*
• Bridget#724Editor’s note Down from #534 in 2015 to #724 in 2025 in the US
• Briana#661Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1994, with 5,000 babies; 431 in 2025
• Morgan#312Editor’s note Cooling off in the US: #121 in 2015, #312 in 2025
• Jenna#679Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 6,436 babies; 418 in 2025
• Sabrina#321Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1997, with 5,816 babies; 956 in 2025

For a brother

• Brian#339Same root as Brendan, meaning “prince, king”^*
• Shawn#681“God is gracious”^*
• Shane#635“God is gracious”^*
• Kenneth#294“handsome”^*
• Ryan#99Editor’s note Peaked in the US in 1985, with 29,905 babies; 3,532 in 2025
• Sean#489“God is gracious”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Irish & Celtic, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Jennifer’s. Rank is US 2025.