Given name

Jenniffer

Jenniffer is a given name from English. It is used in Spanish.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Jenniffer comes from English.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From English Jennifer.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

The story

Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1947. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.

From dated birth records

Jenniffer through the years

Babies since 1880
2,878
0 boys · 2,878 girls
Most popular year
1972
125 babies
2025
0
Outside the ranked list
2021–25 vs 2016–20
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Too few births to compare
02550751001960198020002025Highest share 19730.0
Jenniffer in U.S. Social Security birth records, 1947–2025, per million girls born. Years with fewer than five births for a sex are not published and appear as zero. Use the arrow keys to step through years.

By the numbers

The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 7 in 2012. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 125 in 1972. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 3,699 as a first name in 2020.

From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.

Jenniffer’s family of names

In German usage, Jenniffer has a related form in Jennifer.

Walk Jenniffer’s family in the name graph

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Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.

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Nicknames & forms 1

Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.

Spellings & scripts 1

The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.

See also 1

Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.

People named Jenniffer

Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.

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