How popular is “Jenna” in the USA?

Number of people named “Jenna” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Jenna” 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 “Jenna” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Jenna” by birth year

This chart shows how “Jenna” 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
1915	5	0.000002729	5		100%
1917	9	0.000004485	9		100%
1918	6	0.000002764	6		100%
1919	6	0.000002843	6		100%
1920	10	0.00000442	10		100%
1921	5	0.000002142	5		100%
1922	6	0.000002621	6		100%
1923	6	0.000002606	6		100%
1924	9	0.000003779	9		100%
1925	5	0.000002143	5		100%
1926	10	0.000004356	10		100%
1928	9	0.000003981	9		100%
1929	10	0.000004562	10		100%
1930	8	0.000003598	8		100%
1931	24	0.000011405	24		100%
1932	17	0.000008052	17		100%
1933	22	0.000011003	22		100%
1934	13	0.00000626	13		100%
1935	10	0.000004785	10		100%
1936	20	0.000009627	20		100%
1937	14	0.000006571	14		100%
1938	17	0.000007683	17		100%
1939	14	0.000006354	14		100%
1940	10	0.000004343	10		100%
1941	7	0.000002873	7		100%
1942	13	0.000004759	13		100%
1943	16	0.000005669	16		100%
1944	10	0.000003717	10		100%
1945	13	0.0000049	13		100%
1946	17	0.00000532	17		100%
1947	29	0.00000805	29		100%
1948	18	0.000005214	18		100%
1949	22	0.000006313	22		100%
1950	21	0.000005994	21		100%
1951	22	0.000005972	22		100%
1952	21	0.000005529	21		100%
1953	31	0.000008044	31		100%
1954	28	0.000007034	28		100%
1955	31	0.000007721	31		100%
1956	28	0.000006791	28		100%
1957	21	0.000004997	21		100%
1958	23	0.000005564	23		100%
1959	39	0.00000938	39		100%
1960	32	0.000007704	32		100%
1961	55	0.000013278	55		100%
1962	63	0.000015612	63		100%
1963	56	0.000014148	56		100%
1964	60	0.000015434	60		100%
1965	55	0.000015171	55		100%
1966	60	0.000017263	60		100%
1967	55	0.000016201	55		100%
1968	68	0.000020128	68		100%
1969	114	0.000032803	114		100%
1970	108	0.000029946	108		100%
1971	152	0.000044284	152		100%
1972	304	0.000096723	304		100%
1973	591	0.000195897	591		100%
1974	469	0.000154276	469		100%
1975	501	0.000165927	501		100%
1976	484	0.00015951	484		100%
1977	531	0.000167165	531		100%
1978	463	0.000145879	463		100%
1979	622	0.000186955	622		100%
1980	1076	0.000312382	1076		100%
1981	1366	0.000394869	1361	5	99%
1982	1020	0.000290767	1012	8	98%
1983	1168	0.000337247	1168		100%
1984	5900	0.001691148	5881	19	99%
1985	6454	0.001808294	6436	18	99%
1986	5437	0.001528502	5416	21	99%
1987	5329	0.001477973	5305	24	99%
1988	4624	0.001251406	4607	17	99%
1989	4352	0.001132022	4339	13	99%
1990	3963	0.001002662	3956	7	100%
1991	4471	0.001147804	4459	12	99%
1992	5103	0.001328466	5090	13	99%
1993	4887	0.001296191	4882	5	100%
1994	4605	0.001238685	4594	11	100%
1995	4254	0.001161611	4254		100%
1996	4288	0.001175698	4288		100%
1997	4422	0.00121961	4422		100%
1998	4866	0.001322927	4866		100%
1999	5048	0.00136659	5043	5	100%
2000	5053	0.001336806	5045	8	100%
2001	6149	0.001642629	6143	6	100%
2002	5671	0.001517003	5664	7	100%
2003	5368	0.00141177	5352	16	99%
2004	5202	0.001361451	5175	27	99%
2005	4802	0.001248945	4796	6	100%
2006	3949	0.000998183	3941	8	100%
2007	3304	0.000826479	3304		100%
2008	3241	0.000824542	3241		100%
2009	2635	0.000689759	2635		100%
2010	2225	0.000602045	2225		100%
2011	1841	0.000503309	1841		100%
2012	1526	0.00041724	1526		100%
2013	1417	0.000388681	1417		100%
2014	1238	0.000334019	1238		100%
2015	1089	0.000294252	1089		100%
2016	891	0.000242865	891		100%
2017	811	0.000226777	811		100%
2018	736	0.000209335	736		100%
2019	709	0.000204268	709		100%
2020	546	0.000163445	546		100%
2021	514	0.000151714	514		100%
2022	463	0.000136855	463		100%
2023	472	0.000142547	472		100%
2024	416	0.000124981	416		100%

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