Jenisha
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 3 babies a year in England and Wales.
Jenisha by the numbers
In 2025, 3 babies in England and Wales were named Jenisha. In the US, 16 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
It is used at about the same rate on both sides of the Atlantic.
Its American peak was 16 babies in 2011, making it a 2010s name.
What we can tell you about Jenisha
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Jenisha. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Janisha6 in the US (2017)
- Jenessagod is gracious; modern elaboration of Jennifer46 in the US (2017)
- Jeniahgod is gracious; form of jehovah or jane9 in the US (2017)
- Jerushapossession; married woman in the hebrew bible3 in England and Wales (2025)
- Jenica20 in the US (2017)
- Jisha20 in England and Wales (2025)
Names about as common as Jenisha
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