Yennifer
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- YEN-ee-fer
- Origin
- Cornish
- US rank, 2025
- #14,937 for girls
Yennifer is a girls' name of Cornish origin, meaning “fair, white”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).
What does Yennifer mean?
Cornish: spelling of Yenifer; Latin American spelling of Jennifer, the Cornish form of Guinevere
“fair, white”
A Latin American phonetic spelling of Jennifer, the Cornish form of Guinevere, King Arthur's queen.
Meaning borrowed from Yenifer.
Is Yennifer a girl's or a boy's name?
Yennifer 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 Yennifer 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 Yennifer, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,948th. Its busiest year was 2003, with 32 girls. It first appears in the records in 1985.
2025 had fewer girls named Yennifer than any year since 2017.
Half of all the girls named Yennifer in the US since 1880 were born between 1998 and 2009, the years shaded on the chart below.
Yennifer in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #14,937 |
| 2024 | 10 | #9,551 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,536 |
| 2021 | 10 | #9,557 |
| 2020 | 11 | #8,948 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
| 2017 | 5 | #15,898 |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 9 | #10,949 |
| 2013 | 6 | #14,577 |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,192 |
| 2010 | 21 | #6,180 |
| 2009 | 13 | #8,884 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,738 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,319 |
| 2006 | 18 | #6,838 |
| 2005 | 25 | #5,109 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,740 |
| 2003 | 32 | #4,105 |
| 2002 | 25 | #4,763 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,559 |
| 2000 | 24 | #4,786 |
| 1999 | 30 | #3,891 |
| 1998 | 20 | #5,119 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,815 |
| 1996 | 9 | #8,807 |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,672 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,313 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,031 |
| 1992 | 9 | #8,726 |
| 1991 | 12 | #6,969 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,241 |
| 1989 | 5 | #12,356 |
| 1988 | 5 | #11,792 |
| 1987 | 0 | – |
| 1986 | 0 | – |
| 1985 | 5 | #10,672 |
Nicknames for Yennifer
- Yeni 5 girls in the US in 2025
Names like Yennifer
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Kennedy, Mckenna, Parker, Kiara, Cassidy, Madison, Sienna, Savannah, Hunter, Yareli, Brianna, Harper
Names related to Yennifer
More Cornish names
Elowyn, Lowen, Elowen, Jennifer, Jenna, Denzel, Merryn, Lowenna, Sennen, Elowynn, Morwenna, Demelza, Jennah, Senara, Merrin, Jena
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, “Yennifer: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/yennifer, updated 20 October 2026.