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How popular is the name Jennifer?
Births per year, rank history and how many Jennifers are alive today.
Jennifer (female), once a common girls' name, is now an uncommon choice for new babies in England and Wales, ranked 650th in 2025 with 59 given the name. The name peaked in 1984, when around 5,000 babies were given the name, the 11th most popular that year. Jennifer's popularity is double-peaked: popular in the 1940s and stronger still at its peak in the 1980s. Numbers have been falling in recent years. At least 150,000 babies have been named Jennifer in England and Wales since 1934. Figures before 1996 are estimates.
The Jennifer you are most likely to meet is around 42 years old - or else around 80: the name has two living generations. Half of all Jennifers born in England and Wales are between 40 and 73, and there are at least 130,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's roughly a 34% chance that at least one of them will be called Jennifer.
How many babies are named Jennifer each year?
Where does Jennifer rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Jennifer most popular?
Jennifer peaked in 1984, when around 5,000 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Jennifer?
At least 130,000 people named Jennifer born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Jennifer?
Most living Jennifers are between 40 and 73; the most common age is about 42. There is a second cluster around 80.
Is Jennifer becoming more or less popular?
Declining: recent figures are a fraction of the 1984 peak.