Jênnifer
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jênnifer is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 17th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From English Jennifer, from Cornish, from Middle Cornish Gwynnever, from Proto-Brythonic *Gwɨnnohuɨβar.
- IEIreland≈1 in 199(inferred from the name graph)
- CACanada≈1 in 204
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 222
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #58 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 679 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 199 (inferred from the name graph)
1,331,077 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ireland, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Jennifer in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CA Canada and 5 more.
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)- EnglishJennifer(measured from records)
- Middle CornishGwynnever(measured from records)
- Proto-Brythonic*Gwɨnnohuɨβar(measured from records)
From English Jennifer, from Cornish, from Middle Cornish Gwynnever, from Proto-Brythonic *Gwɨnnohuɨβar.
Cited for this meaning 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 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jênnifer 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #17 | 1,331,077 | 1 in 250 | 1.3M | Jennifer | 679 |
| PH Philippines | #31 | ≈320,000 est. | ≈1 in 340 | — | Jennifer | 190 |
| GB United Kingdom | #37 | ≈290,000 est. | ≈1 in 223 | 3 | Jennifer | 397 |
| CA Canada | #17 | ≈190,000 est. | ≈1 in 204 | 9 | Jennifer | 390 |
| NG Nigeria | #276 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.2K | — | Jennifer | 143 |
| AU Australia | #30 | ≈100,000 est. | ≈1 in 246 | 88 | Jennifer | 319 |
| IE Ireland | #20 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 199 | — | Jennifer | 160 |
| NZ New Zealand | #30 | ≈22,000 est. | ≈1 in 222 | 11 | Jennifer | 176 |
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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). 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).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jênnifer 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 Jênnifer a male or female name?
- Jênnifer 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 Jênnifer have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 1.3 million people named Jênnifer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jennifer.
- How common is the name Jênnifer?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,331,077 people named Jênnifer in 2020, about 1 in 250 residents.
- How common is Jênnifer compared with other names?
- In the United States, Jênnifer is the 17th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%AAnniferThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Jênnifer” — the 17th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.