Jene
Recorded 1915–2008 · United States
Jene was most popular in 1987, when 45 American babies were given the name — ranking #3,732 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,218 people named Jene.
Jene over time
How old is the name Jene?
Jene first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1915, which makes it about 110 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 93 of the 111 years since. It was last recorded in 2008.
How many people are named Jene?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,218 American births named Jene between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,452 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Jene in 2025?
Jene was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Jene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Jene is a unisex name — 70.9% of the 2,218 Americans given it were girls and 29.1% were boys. It changed hands: since 1951 it has gone mainly to girls, having gone mainly to boys before that.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Jene?
Roughly 1,452 Americans named Jene are alive today — 65% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 49 years old, and half are between 39 and 66.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Jene is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org