Jenni

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Jenni: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Jenni: Recorded since 1976, it reached #293 in 2001, and it stood at #473 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
55times a registrar ranked it
50years from first to last
#293highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2018

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1522
1997	#2738
1998	#2407
1999	#1970
2000	#1995
2001	#1870
2002	#1784
2003	#1722
2004	#2530
2005	#3970
2006	#2781
2007	#2627
2008	#2721
2009	#5556
2010	#5707
2011	#4049
2014	#4003
2015	#4736
2018	#4684

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in Norway in 31 of the 50 years from 1976 to 2025.

In 2018: #458 among girls in Norway, #4684 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1976–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1976
First recorded at #559 among girls in Norway in 1976 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Girls
Highest recorded1997–2007
Highest recorded position: #293 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2001 (recorded 1997–2007).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #473 among girls in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Girls

Jenni appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Girls, which has ranked it in 31 years beginning in 1976, and has registered 183 births with the name.

Jenni across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Jenni's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Girls	#559 (1976)	#338 (2020)	#473 (2025)	31 of 50	183 (1976–2025)	10 (2020)
England and Wales · Girls	#1522 (1996)	#1522 (1996)	#4684 (2018)	19 of 23	126 (1996–2018)	11 (1996)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#358 (1997)	#293 (2001)	#301 (2007)	5 of 11	18 (1997–2007)	5 (2007)

Jenni by decade in Norway · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Jenni in Norway · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1970s	5	1 of 10	5
1980s	21	4 of 10	5
1990sbusiest	30	5 of 10	6
2000s	43	8 of 10	5
2010s	53	9 of 10	6
2020s	31	4 of 10	8

Across Norway · Girls, the 1990s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 6 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1976 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #293 in Northern Ireland in 2001.

Jenni's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2018	England and Wales	female	#4684	4	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#4003	5	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#4049	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#5707	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#2721	8	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#2627	8	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#2781	7	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#3970	4	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#2530	7	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1722	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1784	10	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#1870	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#1995	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1970	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2407	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2738	5	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#1522	11	High	Verified
2007	Northern Ireland	female	#301	5	High	Verified
2001	Northern Ireland	female	#293	4	High	Verified
1999	Northern Ireland	female	#344	3	High	Verified
1998	Northern Ireland	female	#351	3	High	Verified
1997	Northern Ireland	female	#358	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	female	#473	5	High	Verified
2024	Norway	female	#427	6	High	Verified
2023	Norway	female	#351	10	High	Verified
2020	Norway	female	#338	10	High	Verified
2019	Norway	female	#515	4	High	Verified
2018	Norway	female	#458	6	High	Verified
2017	Norway	female	#491	5	High	Verified
2015	Norway	female	#460	7	High	Verified
2014	Norway	female	#489	6	High	Verified
2013	Norway	female	#445	8	High	Verified
2012	Norway	female	#495	6	High	Verified
2011	Norway	female	#588	4	High	Verified
2010	Norway	female	#488	7	High	Verified
2009	Norway	female	#560	5	High	Verified
2007	Norway	female	#604	4	High	Verified
2005	Norway	female	#458	7	High	Verified
2004	Norway	female	#483	6	High	Verified
2003	Norway	female	#458	7	High	Verified
2002	Norway	female	#562	5	High	Verified
2001	Norway	female	#538	5	High	Verified
2000	Norway	female	#606	4	High	Verified
1999	Norway	female	#516	6	High	Verified
1997	Norway	female	#510	6	High	Verified
1995	Norway	female	#579	5	High	Verified
1992	Norway	female	#552	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	female	#520	7	High	Verified
1989	Norway	female	#573	6	High	Verified
1988	Norway	female	#625	5	High	Verified
1984	Norway	female	#554	6	High	Verified
1981	Norway	female	#637	4	High	Verified
1976	Norway	female	#559	5	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Jenni is officially recorded

3 official registrars have recorded Jenni, between 1976 and 2025, in 35 of those 50 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Norway	1976–2025	31	#338 in 2020
England and Wales	1996–2018	19	#1522 in 1996
Northern Ireland	1997–2007	5	#293 in 2001

Its high point came 24 years earlier in England and Wales (1996) than in Norway (2020).

No registrar recorded it for 4 years after 1976; it appears again in 1981.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1976 and 2025, ranked in 35 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #293, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 11 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 4 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 21 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Jenna · #12, 45y
Jennah · #1209, 29y
Jennie · #192, 50y
Jennifer · #1, 75y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Anais · #292, 30y
Arvin · #291, 30y
Meagan · #295, 33y
Sumaya · #291, 31y

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1970 and 1979.

Westley · #293, 25y
Marissa · #294, 45y
Bebhinn · #290, 38y
Tilla · #296, 28y

Jenni was ranked #293 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2001. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Abbi#293
Aideen#293
Ailis#293
Ana#293
Abbey#343
Ailise#343
Aiobheann#343
Alexis#343

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1976 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #293 in Northern Ireland in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-22.

Jenni

Jenni at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Jenni across 3 official records

Jenni by decade in Norway · Girls

Popularity data

Where Jenni is officially recorded

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Jenni

Jenni at a glance

Jenni across 3 official records

Jenni by decade in Norway · Girls

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1970s

Names published alongside Jenni