Jenin

loc · Latin script

Meaning: town. West Bank

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

Jenin is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in France than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • EEEstonia≈1 in 234K(inferred from the name graph)
  • FRFrance≈1 in 344K
  • NONorway≈1 in 3.6M

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.

France (inferred from the name graph)

≈200 people, est.

Sources
109 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 234K (inferred from the name graph)

Estonia, est.

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 Jénin in FR France.

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)

town. West Bank

Sources 1

  • Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jenin 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 Jenin is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FR France≈200 est.≈1 in 344K19Jénin109
US United States≈29 est.≈1 in 12M212—5
IT Italy≈5 est.≈1 in 12M1——
EE Estonia≈5 est.≈1 in 234Klisted——
NO Norway≈2 est.≈1 in 3.6M5——
BE Belgium21 in 5.9M2—4

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; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). 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)

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

  • English name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Jeniñ

  • Spanish surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Yenin, Ĵěnìn, Yenín, Jénin, Jēñîñ

  • Arabic name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Palestine, Syria, Algeria, Yemen

    Also written Jęńįń

40 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)

Jenin is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In German, from Genuinus

    as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung

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)

19601970198019902000Yevgeny Yenin, b. 1969Artyom Yenin, b. 1976Yevhen Yenin, b. 1980Mohammad Shahirul Jenin, b. 1989Ivan Yenin, b. 1994

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 26 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Jenin
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)194136—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)193136—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)196135—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)190133—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)195131—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)191129—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)197128—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)192123—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)198122—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)189120—
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000)199119—
BE BelgiumFamilienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register)20082#149,943

Reference works 4

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 Jenin mean, and where does it come from?
town. West Bank Recorded by Pronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names.
In which country does Jenin have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 197 people named Jenin in France, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jénin.
How common is the name Jenin?
In Belgium, the national register counted 2 people named Jenin in 2008, about 1 in 5.9 million residents.

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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, “Jenin”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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