Jennifer

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish
Norway Norwegian
Greenland Greenlandic

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Origin and Meaning

Younger English form of Guinevere (see Gwenhwyfar) [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

Jenefer
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Jenifer
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Jeniffer
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Jenipher
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Jennefer
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Jenneffer
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Jennifer
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Jenniffer
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Jennipher
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Jenniver
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Jennyfer
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Jennyffer
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Jennypher
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Jenyfer
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Yenifer
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Yennifer
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Yennipher
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Swedish

For short forms see Jenny

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Jennifer
Genitive: Jennifers
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Jennifer
Genitive: Jenniferin
Partitive: Jenniferiä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Jennifer
Genitive: Jennifers
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Jennifer
Genitive: Jennifers

Name Days

Finland (Swedish Language)Finland (Swedish Language) Finland (Swedish Language)

30 October

Sweden Sweden

6 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 182 people were named Jennifer (percentage of first or only given name: 53 %) [9]

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country
Commonness
Commonness
Total Female ♀ Male ♂
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
as
main
name#
also
middle
name&
Sweden Sweden[10]
9830 12438 9825 12432 5 6
Denmark Denmark[11]
1240
n.a.
1239
n.a.
1
n.a.
Finland Finland[12]
n.a.
1342
n.a.
1342 0 0
Iceland Iceland[13]
38 42
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[14]
7 10
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[15]
797
n.a.
797
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
  #: count of main first name only
  &: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published
for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Jennifer (f) Sources: [10][11][15][12]

Top List Ranking

Name top list ranking for Jennifer (f) Sources: [16]


References

  1. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  2. 2.0 2.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  3. 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 3.5 Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  4. 4.0 4.1 Michael Lerche Nielsen: Hvad skal barnet hedde? (2003)
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Riksarkivet/SVAR - Svensk arkivinformation: Sveriges befolkning 1990
  7. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, census of 2011, http://www.stat.gl/
  8. Mannanafnaskrá at island.is, http://www.island.is
  9. 9.0 9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  10. 10.0 10.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  11. 11.0 11.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  12. 12.0 12.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  13. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  14. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  15. 15.0 15.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
  16. details see Name Statistic tables