Jénnifer

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jénnifer is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Gabon it is the 13th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From English Jennifer, from Cornish, from Middle Cornish Gwynnever, from Proto-Brythonic *Gwɨnnohuɨβar.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 250(measured from records)
  • ESSpain1 in 2.5K
  • BRBrazil1 in 5.3K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

1,331,077 people, 2020

#851 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

Sources
494 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 250 (inferred from the name graph)

United States

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jennifer in US United States, BR Brazil, ES Spain and 2 more and Jënnïfër in EC Ecuador.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Jénnifer: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Jénnifer
  1. EnglishJennifer(measured from records)
  2. Middle CornishGwynnever(measured from records)
  3. Proto-Brythonic*Gwɨnnohuɨβar(measured from records)

From English Jennifer, from Cornish, from Middle Cornish Gwynnever, from Proto-Brythonic *Gwɨnnohuɨβar.

Sources 6

  • Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
  • Irish first names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jénnifer counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Jénnifer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#5851,331,0771 in 2501.3MJennifer494
BR Brazil#48139,7621 in 5.3K40KJennifer185
EC Ecuador—39,1391 in 43239KJënnïfër53
ES Spain#21720,3711 in 2.5K20KJennifer156
SE Sweden—12,6611 in 80613KJennifer50
CR Costa Rica—8,0111 in 6368K—111
GY Guyana—1,1721 in 6401.2K——
GA Gabon#13———Jennifer34

1,331,077 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jénnifer is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name111 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Arabic

    Also written Jennifer, ג'ניפר, Jenifer, Jenifar, Jeniffer

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Jennifer

  • Polish given name39 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Poland, Czechia, United Kingdom

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Czech

    Also written Jennifer, Дженнифер, Dženifer, Йеннифер, Еннифер

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Jénnifer under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jénnifer mean, and where does it come from?
From English Jennifer, from Cornish, from Middle Cornish Gwynnever, from Proto-Brythonic *Gwɨnnohuɨβar. Recorded by Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,… and Irish first names and 4 other sources.
Is Jénnifer a male or female name?
Jénnifer is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Jénnifer have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 million people named Jénnifer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jennifer.
Where is Jénnifer most common?
Jénnifer is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 250 people carrying it.
How common is the name Jénnifer?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,331,077 people named Jénnifer in 2020, about 1 in 250 residents.
How common is Jénnifer compared with other names?
In the United States, Jénnifer is the 585th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jénnifer” — the 585th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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