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Jenicka

juh-NI-kah /dʒə.ˈnɪk.ə/

At a glance

U.S. rank 2025
#10,917 of girl names (outside the top 1,000)
Babies in 2025
8 (<0.01% of girls)
Trend
Slipping #8,406 in 2020 to #10,917 in 2025
Peak
#2,108 in 2013
First recorded
2002

Meaning of Jenicka

Jenicka, pronounced juh-NI-kah (/dʒə.ˈnɪk.ə/), unfurls like a ribbon of warm sunlight across a Venetian lagoon, its syllables bearing the gracious echo of the Hebrew Yochanan—“God is gracious”—yet adorned with a contemporary flourish all her own. As a lyrical offshoot of Janice and Jane, she stands at the crossroads of classic European elegance and modern American inventiveness, conjuring visions of olive groves kissed by the golden Tuscan sun, where each softly spoken “Jenicka” drifts like a melody through cypress-lined avenues. Though modest in annual company—hovering around a dozen to a few score newborn bearers in recent years—she carries a quiet confidence, a playful spark that hints at unexpected charm and gentle wit. In every corner of her name lies a mosaic of tenderness and strength: she is at once the spirited young girl laughing beneath a lemon tree and the poised woman whose presence feels like an embrace. Endowed with both poetic grace and sunny warmth, Jenicka is a name that dances effortlessly between tradition and novelty, weaving a story as richly textured as an Italian fresco.

How to pronounce Jenicka

English

Popularity of Jenicka in the U.S.

Jenicka was the #10,917 girl name in the U.S. in 2025, with 8 babies. It peaked at #2,108 in 2013. It first appears in the records in 2002.

Bar and line chart: Jenicka in the U.S., 2002–2025. Bars: girls given the name each year, most 90 in 2013 and 8 in 2025. Line: rank among girl names, peak #2,108 in 2013, #10,917 in 2025.
  • Girls named Jenicka (left scale)
  • Rank among U.S. girl names (right scale, #1 at the top)
By year, 2002–2025. Source: SSA. Download: PNG · SVG
Year-by-year table, 2002⁠–⁠2025 16 rows
Jenicka: babies and rank among girl names in the U.S. by year
YearBabiesRankvs previous year
2025810,917▼ 2,474
2024128,443▲ 546
2023118,989▼ 447
2022128,542▼ 2,368
2021196,174▲ 2,232
2020128,406▼ 3,860
2019304,546▲ 222
2018284,768▲ 2,674
2017157,442▲ 1,969
2016119,411▼ 4,284
2015265,127▼ 1,475
2014423,652▼ 1,544
2013902,108▲ 6,524
2012138,632▲ 6,192
2011614,824back (not recorded in 2003–2010)
2002613,595new