Jennifer

A female given name from Cornish.

Proper noun

  1. A female given name from Cornish.
    • RIDGEON. Thats a wonderful drawing. Why is it called Jennifer? MRS DUBEDAT. My name is Jennifer. RIDGEON. A strange name. MRS DUBEDAT. Not in Cornwall. I am Cornish. It's only what you call Guinevere. - 1906, George...
    • "Most people's sisters have decent names like Jennifer or Jane or something. What did you say hers was?" - 1960, Jerrard Tickell, The Hunt for Richard Thorpe, Doubleday, page 10:
    • Jennifer. Jenny with the light brown hair. Jenny-fair, their high school French teacher had called her, and fair she had been. - 2000, Dana Stabenow, Nothing Gold Can Stay, Dutton, →ISBN, page 131:

Origin

From Cornish, from Middle Cornish Gwynnever (cognate with Welsh Gwenhwyfar), from Proto-Brythonic *Gwɨnnohuɨβar. Doublet of Guinevere. Compare Irish Fionnbharr, Fionnabhair, which may be cognate.

Forms

Jenifer Jenipher

Related

Gaynor Ginevra Guinevere Gweniver Jen Jena Jeni Jenn Jenna Jenni Jennie Jenny Jeny

Derived

Jennifer Aniston neuron