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’ (Dictionary of American Family Names)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 48 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
/xɛnifeɾ/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Jenifer is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country: 76,540 people, counted by IBGE in 2022.
- ECEcuador1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- BRBrazil1 in 2.8K
- SVEl Salvador≈1 in 3.3K
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)
- Record sources
- 289 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
76,540 people, 2022
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
How to pronounce Jenifer
- Spanish:/xɛnifeɾ/(machine-generated) model-generated
- Portuguese:/ˈd͡ʒe.ni.feɻ/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Readings marked model-generated were transcribed by a model; the others are quoted from the dictionary named.
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’.
Cited for this meaning 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | #808 | 76,540 | 1 in 2.8K | 89K | Jenifer | 120 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈28,000 est. | ≈1 in 4.2K | — | Jenifer | 66 |
| US United States | — | 27,430 | 1 in 12K | 27K | Jenifer | 289 |
| CO Colombia | #384 | ≈14,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.7K | 4 | Jenifer | 114 |
| ES Spain | #409 | 8,551 | 1 in 5.8K | 8.6K | Jenifer | 126 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 6,320 | 1 in 2.7K | 6.3K | Jenifer | 32 |
| SV El Salvador | #441 | ≈1,900 est. | ≈1 in 3.3K | — | Jenifer | 22 |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 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 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"
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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)- Jennifer Connellyb. 1970USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress (born 1970)
- Jennifer Capriatib. 1976USnot in their usual nameAmerican tennis player
- Ginnifer Goodwinb. 1978USnot in their usual nameAmerican actress
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)84 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 48 countries.
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.
- 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.
- How do you pronounce Jenifer?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /xɛnifeɾ/; in Portuguese /ˈd͡ʒe.ni.feɻ/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Jenifer a male or female name?
- Jenifer is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Brazil (IBGE, 2022), United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Spain (INE) and Ecuador (INEC, 2024), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Jenifer?
- 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. After it come Philippines, United States, Colombia and Spain; the country table on this page ranks them.
- 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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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jeniferThe 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, “Jenifer” — ranked 403rd in Brazil (IBGE). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.