Entry № 4899 · English origin

Jenner Jenner — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JEN-er /
Gender
Girl
Origin
English
Meaning
"Engineer / craftsman (Edward Jenner; Kris Jenner)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Medieval (English)

A name that means "engineer / craftsman (edward jenner; kris jenner)".

Jenner is from the Old English — a craftsman or engineer surname.

Engineer / craftsman.

The name in its native script.

Jenner
Transliteration
Jenner
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒɛn.ər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jenner stands.

Jenner does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jenners before her.

Real people
Kris Jenner
American Kardashian-Jenner matriarch.
born 1955
Kendall Jenner
American supermodel.
born 1995
Kylie Jenner
American Kylie Cosmetics founder.
born 1997
In fiction
Jenner
Modern American naming.

Names connected to Jenner.

The number behind Jenner.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jenner reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.