How popular is the name Jeni?

Jeni ranks 1,732nd among girls' names in US records, with 6,925 births since 1893. Over the past decade it accounts for 56.

Is Jeni a unisex name?

No. Jeni is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.

1982, when 253 children were given the name. It has been in use for 131 years and is still recorded as of 2024.

Jenee, Jene, Jenie, Jeanee, Jini. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.

Girl name#1,732 of girl names

Pronounced JH IY1 N AY1 (ARPABET)

Jeni is a girls' name, and first appears in 1893. It has been given to 6,925 children — the 1,732nd most common girls' name on record.

It is still recorded, but barely: 56 births across the past decade, against a peak of 253 in a single year. That peak was in 1982.

Five other spellings are counted in that total — Jenee, Jene, Jenie and two more — because they are pronounced identically.

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These spellings sound identical to Jeni and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.

Phonetic detail

Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.

Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.

Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.

How popular is the name Jeni?: Jeni ranks 1,732nd among girls' names in US records, with 6,925 births since 1893. Over the past decade it accounts for 56.
Is Jeni a unisex name?: No. Jeni is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
When was Jeni most popular?: 1982, when 253 children were given the name. It has been in use for 131 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
How else is Jeni spelled?: Jenee, Jene, Jenie, Jeanee, Jini. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.