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Jenisis

Gender
Girl
Say it
JEN-ih-sis
Origin
Greek
US rank, 2025
#14,937 for girls

Jenisis is a girls' name of Greek origin, meaning “origin, birth”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Jenisis mean?

Greek: spelling of Genesis, from Greek genesis

“origin, birth”

Genesis is the first book of the Bible, which tells of the creation of the world.

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

Jenisis is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Jenisis in the US?

Rank in 2025
14,937th among girls
Babies in 2025
5 about 1 in 320,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the US were named Jenisis, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2016, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 1998.

Half of all the girls named Jenisis in the US since 1880 were born between 2009 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 382 girls in the US were given Jenisis or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #725, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.

1998Busiest: 16 in 20162025
Jenisis in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
202410#9,551
20237#12,192
20227#12,237
20215#15,246
20207#12,137
201910#9,730
20180–
20170–
201616#7,227
20158#11,830
201410#10,124
201312#9,031
201212#9,105
201112#9,146
201010#10,446
200910#10,675
200810#10,802
20077#13,918
200610#10,606
20050–
20048#11,617
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19990–
19985#14,116

Nicknames for Jenisis

Names like Jenisis

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

Other spellings of Jenisis

Names related to Jenisis

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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, “Jenisis: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/jenisis, updated 20 October 2026.