Entry № 4901 · Cornish origin

Jennifer Jennifer — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JEN-ih-fer /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Cornish
Meaning
"Fair phantom (#1 American girl's name 1970-1984; Jennifer Aniston)"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Medieval (Cornish)

A name that means "fair phantom (#1 american girl's name 1970-1984; jennifer aniston)".

Jennifer is the Cornish form of the Welsh Gwenhwyfar (Guinevere) — gwen (fair, blessed) + hwyfar (smooth, phantom). Jennifer Aniston (born 1969) — American actress, Friends. Jennifer Lopez (born 1969) — American singer-actress.

Fair phantom (#1 American girl's name 1970-1984; Jennifer Aniston) — a Cornish name.

The name in its native script.

Jennifer
Transliteration
Jennifer
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒɛn.ɪ.fər /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jennifer stands.

Jennifer 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.

Jennifers before her.

Real people
Jennifer Aniston
American actress.
born 1969
Jennifer Lopez
American singer-actress.
born 1969
Jennifer Lawrence
American Oscar actress.
born 1990
In fiction
Jennifer Cavalleri
Love Story.
1970

Names connected to Jennifer.

The number behind Jennifer.

9

The Giver

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jennifer reduce to 9, The Giver. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.