first name
JENNIFER
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 1,331,077 people named Jennifer, 77.4% reported their origin as White, 12.1% as Hispanic or Latino and 3.6% as Black. 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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Jennifer peaked in 1972, when 63,790 babies got the name.
At least 1,476,540 babies have been given the name since 1919. 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.
Jennifer by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1970s, when it ranked #2. The largest share of babies named Jennifer, 51.1%, were born between 1965 and 1980, Generation X'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 Jennifer is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Jennifer has been most common in New Hampshire (1.5×), Alaska (1.4×), and Wyoming (1.3×), and least common in Mississippi (0.66×).
1,473,291 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.
Either side of Jennifer
Spelled almost the same
8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Jennifer, most common first.
Also a last name
As a last name, Jennifer ranks #55,400 of 156,621, with 400 people. See Jennifer as a last name
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