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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.

1985Busiest: 32 in 20032025
Yennifer in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#14,937
202410#9,551
202312#8,481
202212#8,536
202110#9,557
202011#8,948
20197#12,442
20186#13,788
20175#15,898
20160–
20150–
20149#10,949
20136#14,577
20120–
201114#8,192
201021#6,180
200913#8,884
200816#7,738
200721#6,319
200618#6,838
200525#5,109
200421#5,740
200332#4,105
200225#4,763
200126#4,559
200024#4,786
199930#3,891
199820#5,119
199721#4,815
19969#8,807
199516#5,672
199414#6,313
199312#7,031
19929#8,726
199112#6,969
19908#9,241
19895#12,356
19885#11,792
19870–
19860–
19855#10,672

Nicknames for Yennifer

Names like Yennifer

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

Names related to Yennifer

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