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Jenaveve

Gender
Girl
Say it
JEN-uh-veev
Origin
French

Jenaveve is a girls' name of French origin. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Jenaveve mean?

French: variant of Genevieve, whose roots are uncertain

A variant of Genevieve, the name of the patron saint of Paris.

Is Jenaveve a girl's or a boy's name?

Jenaveve is a girls' name.

How popular is Jenaveve in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 10 girls. It first appears in the records in 1999.

Half of all the girls named Jenaveve in the US since 1880 were born between 2007 and 2015, the years shaded on the chart below.

1999Busiest: 10 in 20072020
Jenaveve in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20206#13,448
20199#10,467
20185#15,677
20170–
20160–
20159#10,861
20148#11,925
20139#10,995
20128#12,193
20115#16,756
201010#10,446
20099#11,454
20080–
200710#10,814
20065#17,163
20055#16,455
20040–
20030–
20027#12,181
20010–
20000–
19999#9,472

Nicknames for Jenaveve

Names like Jenaveve

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Names related to Jenaveve

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Jenaveve: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jenaveve, updated 20 October 2026.