Jennifer
Jennifer is ranked 547th among girls in 2024 (552 births). It was the number one girl’s name in 1970–1984.
- Rank in 2024
- #547down 26 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 5520.03% of girls
- Peak year
- 197263,602 births
- Best rank
- #1first in 1970
- Since 1919
- 1,476,028people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,471,191 girls have been named Jennifer in the United States since 1919, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1972, with 63,602 births — 4.2% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 552 births in 2024, against 63,602 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1978, and the 1970s alone account for 40%. It has spent 87 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 53 of them in the top 100 and 26 in the top 10.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 4,837 boys have also been given it, 0.33% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Jennifer | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | |
| 1920s | 86 | |
| 1930s | 368 | |
| 1940s | 10,685 | |
| 1950s | 43,074 | |
| 1960s | 164,414 | |
| 1970s | 581,733 | |
| 1980s | 440,916 | |
| 1990s | 148,036 | |
| 2000s | 63,506 | |
| 2010s | 15,251 | |
| 2020s | 3,116 |
In 1972, its biggest year
Jennifer was the most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1972 were Jennifer, Michelle, Lisa, Kimberly and Amy. See all of 1972.
Names that rose and fell with Jennifer
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Latinapeak 1973
- Shandrapeak 1976
- Bobbijopeak 1975
- Tarapeak 1972
- Shaundapeak 1978
- Shandapeak 1974
- Shanonpeak 1970
- Shannonpeak 1970
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.