first name
JENNIE
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 39,580 people named Jennie, 68.7% reported their origin as White, 12.4% as Hispanic or Latino and 8.2% as Asian or Pacific Islander. Virtually all are female (99.9%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Jennie peaked in 1917, when 3,119 babies got the name.
At least 127,660 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Jennie by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1880s, when it ranked #49. The largest share of babies named Jennie, 40.4%, were born between 1901 and 1927, the Greatest Generation's birth years.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Jennie is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jennie has been most common in New Mexico (2.5×), Connecticut (2.3×), and Rhode Island (2.1×), and least common in District of Columbia (0.22×).
90,989 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jennie, most common first.
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