Girl name#7 of girl names
Jennifer
Pronounced JH EH1 N AH0 F ER0 (ARPABET)
- 3 syllables
- Peaked 1972
- 106 years in use
- 1 spelling
How popular is Jennifer?
Jennifer is a girls' name, and first appears in 1919. It has been given to 1,504,354 children — the 7th most common girls' name on record.
It is falling away, down 75% on the previous decade. Its best single year was 1972, when 64,598 children were given it.
Jenifer is counted with it here, since the two are pronounced identically.
Spelling variants
These spellings sound identical to Jennifer and are counted together with it, which is why the totals here are higher than a single-spelling count.
- Jenifer
Characteristics
- 3 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- JH EH1 N AH0 F ER0 · JH EH1 N IH0 F ER0 · JH EH1 N IH1 F ER0
- Stress pattern:
- 100 · 100 · 110
- Syllables:
- 3
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Jennifer
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Jennifer
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Jennifer?
- Jennifer ranks 7th among girls' names in US records, with 1,504,354 births since 1919. Over the past decade it accounts for 8,525.
- Is Jennifer a unisex name?
- No. Jennifer is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Jennifer most popular?
- 1972, when 64,598 children were given the name. It has been in use for 106 years and is still recorded as of 2024.
- How else is Jennifer spelled?
- Jenifer. All of these sound the same and are counted together in the totals on this page.