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How popular is “Jenessa” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jenessa” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jenessa” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Jenessa” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Jenessa” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Jenessa” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Jenessa” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jenessa” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1968 6 0.000001776 6 100%
1970 5 0.000001386 5 100%
1972 13 0.000004136 13 100%
1973 11 0.000003646 11 100%
1974 12 0.000003947 12 100%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1976 14 0.000004614 14 100%
1977 19 0.000005981 19 100%
1978 27 0.000008507 27 100%
1979 41 0.000012323 41 100%
1980 32 0.00000929 32 100%
1981 42 0.000012141 42 100%
1982 53 0.000015108 53 100%
1983 44 0.000012705 44 100%
1984 87 0.000024937 87 100%
1985 70 0.000019613 70 100%
1986 58 0.000016306 58 100%
1987 81 0.000022465 81 100%
1988 66 0.000017862 66 100%
1989 81 0.000021069 81 100%
1990 116 0.000029349 116 100%
1991 156 0.000040049 156 100%
1992 91 0.00002369 91 100%
1993 83 0.000022014 83 100%
1994 82 0.000022057 82 100%
1995 66 0.000018022 66 100%
1996 52 0.000014258 52 100%
1997 65 0.000017927 65 100%
1998 66 0.000017944 66 100%
1999 81 0.000021928 81 100%
2000 66 0.000017461 66 100%
2001 85 0.000022707 85 100%
2002 98 0.000026215 98 100%
2003 103 0.000027089 103 100%
2004 109 0.000028527 109 100%
2005 115 0.00002991 115 100%
2006 72 0.000018199 72 100%
2007 96 0.000024014 96 100%
2008 80 0.000020353 80 100%
2009 69 0.000018062 69 100%
2010 69 0.00001867 69 100%
2011 98 0.000026792 98 100%
2012 75 0.000020507 75 100%
2013 69 0.000018927 69 100%
2014 67 0.000018077 67 100%
2015 59 0.000015942 59 100%
2016 52 0.000014174 52 100%
2017 46 0.000012863 46 100%
2018 23 0.000006542 23 100%
2019 22 0.000006338 22 100%
2020 28 0.000008382 28 100%
2021 25 0.000007379 25 100%
2022 23 0.000006798 23 100%
2023 15 0.00000453 15 100%
2024 19 0.000005708 19 100%

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