Jenifer

given name · Latin script

Meaning: Probably a variant spelling of English Jennifer, from the Welsh female personal name Gwenhwyfar, a compound of gwen ‘fair’, ‘white’ + (g)wyf ‘smooth’, ‘yielding’ +fawr ‘large’

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

Jenifer is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 2.8K(measured from records)
  • SVEl Salvador≈1 in 3.6K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 3.8K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

76,540 people, 2022

Sources
289 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Probably a variant spelling of English Jennifer, from the Welsh female personal name Gwenhwyfar, a compound of gwen ‘fair’, ‘white’ + (g)wyf ‘smooth’, ‘yielding’ +fawr ‘large’.

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jenifer 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 Jenifer is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#80876,5401 in 2.8K89KJenifer120
CN China—≈69,000 est.≈1 in 20K—Jenifer16
PH Philippines—≈28,000 est.≈1 in 3.8K—Jenifer66
US United States—27,4301 in 12K27KJenifer289
CO Colombia#384≈12,000 est.≈1 in 4.3K4Jenifer114
EC Ecuador—6,3201 in 2.7K6.3KJenifer32
SV El Salvador#441≈1,800 est.≈1 in 3.6K—Jenifer22

76,540 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; the co-datosgov-candidates register; INEC — civil registry names. 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)

Jenifer is also recorded as 8 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name29 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Jeni-Fer, Jénifer, Jenífer, Jênîfer, Jenifér

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Jénifer, Jênifer

  • French given name13 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Belgium, Spain

    Also written Jénifer, Jénîfër, Jeñifer, Jènifer, Jenïfer

  • 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, Jenifar, Jeniffer, Jeniphar

  • Polish given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, United States, Poland, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Jenífer, Jênifer

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, Malaysia, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Jenifer

  • Lao given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Thailand, Philippines

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Jënïfër, Jęnîfēr, Jënifër, Jěnífěř

  • Hungarian given name5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Hungary, United States, Spain, United Kingdom

    Languages: Hungarian, Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Jénifer, Jëńïfêr

56 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Jenifer is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, A female given name from Cornish, a less common form of Jennifer.

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In English, variant of Jennifer; "white wave"

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

196019802000Jennifer Coolidge, b. 1961Jennifer Aniston, b. 1969Jennifer Connelly, b. 1970Jennifer Garner, b. 1972Jennifer Capriati, b. 1976Ginnifer Goodwin, b. 1978Jen Psaki, b. 1978Jennifer Morrison, b. 1979Jennifer Lawrence, b. 1990Jennifer Stone, b. 1993

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 84 sources across 48 countries.

Official registers attesting Jenifer
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—89K#507
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202277K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—76K#403
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202027K#1,329
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20246.3K#299
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20201.6K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—496#403
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202049#1,329
EC EcuadorINEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024)202422—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)202515—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)19896—
CO ColombiaColombia — Función Pública SIGEP II public-servant name corpus (datos.gov.co)—4#117

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jenifer mean, and where does it come from?
Probably a variant spelling of English Jennifer, from the Welsh female personal name Gwenhwyfar, a compound of gwen ‘fair’, ‘white’ + (g)wyf ‘smooth’, ‘yielding’ +fawr ‘large’. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
Is Jenifer a male or female name?
Jenifer 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.
What are other forms of the name Jenifer?
In the etymology graph, Jennifer, Jenny and Jennie are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Jenifer have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 77 thousand people named Jenifer, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jenifer.
Where is Jenifer most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jenifer is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 2.7 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Jenifer?
In Brazil, the national register counted 76,540 people named Jenifer in 2022, about 1 in 2.8 thousand residents.
How common is Jenifer compared with other names?
In Brazil, Jenifer is the 808th most common given name of 474,894 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, “Jenifer” — the 808th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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