Jennifer · Shortlist Together

Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Jennifer.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1946

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.

See the 65 recorded years as a table

Jennifer, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
Year	Per million
1946	4
1950	4
1951	5
1952	3
1953	4
1954	5
1956	4
1957	6
1958	6
1959	5
1960	6
1961	15
1962	12
1963	12
1964	17
1965	18
1966	29
1967	38
1968	38
1969	55
1970	64
1971	110
1972	117
1973	141
1974	118
1975	144
1976	127
1977	109
1978	124
1979	119
1980	118
1981	107
1982	101
1983	109
1984	113
1985	87
1986	89
1987	61
1988	60
1989	73
1990	42
1991	33
1992	29
1993	25
1994	23
1995	29
1996	18
1997	20
1998	14
1999	15
2000	16
2001	13
2002	14
2003	9
2004	12
2005	8
2006	8
2007	3
2008	7
2009	3
2010	3
2011	3
2012	3
2014	3
2016	3

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Jennifer isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

More like Jennifer

The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2016: 6
Rank in 2016: #10,744
How rare: 1 in 316,289 boys
Since 1946: 4,837

Jennifer was last recorded in 2016. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1975, at 144 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Jennifer doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.