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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Jennifer

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#586

down −42 places

2025 births

501

down −55 births

All-time births

1,471,703

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1972
63,600 births
Best rank
#1
in 1970
First recorded
1919
#4,507 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1979
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
107 of 146
unbroken

Top five years

  1. 197263,600#1Peak
  2. 197463,107#1
  3. 197362,448#1
  4. 197659,473#1
  5. 197758,964#1

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #1 in 1970 · peak births 63,600 in 1972

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

4,837 boys · 1,471,703 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Jennifer has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.