Name: Jennifer
Gender: Female
Usage: Jennifer, of cornish origin, is a very popular first name. It is more often used as a girl (female) name.
People having the name Jennifer are in general originating from Argentina, Austria, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Ireland, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States of America.
Variants: For another variant of the name Jennifer across the world, see Guinevere.
Meaning: The meaning of the name Jennifer is: White, White wave.
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Numerology of the first name Jennifer: calculate the core numbers of your numerology chart to discover your numerological profile and your personality traits.
The Growth number corresponding to this first name is 9. It denotes a pattern that assists you in growth and development: humanitarian, self-sacrificing, idealistic, giving, altruist, devoted, romantic.
Interpretation:
Qualities: Compassionate, Idealistic
Ruling planet: Mars
Colors: Red
Gemstones: Bloodstone
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The name Jennifer is ranked on the 15th position of the most used names. It means that this name is very frequently used.
We estimate that there are at least 11305200 persons in the world having this name which is around 0.155% of the population. The name Jennifer has eight characters. It means that it is relatively long-length, compared to the other names in our database.
The graph below represents the number of people who were given the name Jennifer for each year since 1900 in the U.S.A.:
The name day of Jennifer is 3 January.
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History and Origin
Jennifer is a feminine given name, a Cornish form of Guinevere/Gwenhwyfar adopted into the English language during the 20th century.
It may mean "white enchantress"or "the fair one" (from Proto-Celtic *Windo-seibrā "white phantom"). A Cornish form, it is cognate with the Welsh form Gwenhwyfar and with the Old Irish Findabair.
Despite the name's similarity to the Old English words jenefer, genefer and jinifer, all of which were variants of Juniper used to describe the juniper tree, there is no evidence that it comes from these.
It became a common first name for females in English-speaking countries during the 20th century. The name Jennifer has been in use since the 18th century. Before 1906 the name was fairly uncommon, but it gained some recognition after George Bernard Shaw used it for the main female character in The Doctor's Dilemma. However, UK government statistics (covering England and Wales) only show the name first entering the top 100 most commonly used names for baby girls in 1934-28 years after the play was first staged. It thereafter rose in popularity somewhat, peaking at #11 in 1984.
In the United States, the name Jennifer first entered the annual government-derived list of the 1000 most commonly used names for newborn baby girls in 1938, when it ranked at #987. Thereafter, the name steadily gained popularity, entering the top 100 most commonly given girls names in 1956, and breaking through into the top 10 in 1966. It gained even more popularity in the 1970s-Jennifer was the single most popular name for newborn American girls every single year from 1970 to 1984, inclusive.
Since the early 1990s the name has remained common, but considerably less so than in previous years. In the US, usage of the name for newborn girls has been declining slowly but steadily since 1984, dropping out of the top 10 in 1992, and out of the top 100 in 2009. In the UK, the name has also experienced a consistent annual decline, slipping out of England and Wales' top 100 girls names as of 2005.
English: of Celtic (Arthurian) origin. This represents a Cornish form of the name of King Arthur's unfaithful wife (see Guinevere). At the beginning of the 20th century, the name was merely a Cornish curiosity, but since then it has become enormously popular all over the English-speaking world. One factor in its rise was probably Bernard Shaw's use of it for the character of Jennifer Dubedat in The Doctor's Dilemma (1905). See also Gaynor.
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