Baby name

FADING GIRL · HEBREW-ENGLISH
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Jennie

/JEN · ee/


“God is gracious”

English diminutive of Jane or Jennifer, from Hebrew Yochanan meaning 'God is gracious'; used as a standalone given name since the 19th century.

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gentle

How it ages.

Soft and 19th-century - lighter than Jennifer, may revive before Jennifer does.

The cultural moment.

Common in the US in the late 19th-early 20th century and again in the 1970s-80s; now uncommon.