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Jinny

Girls' name

Diminutive of Virginia

Jinny has been given to 821 babies in the U.S. since 1940. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1977, with 27 recorded.

Babies named Jinny, 2024

1 in 557,000

Jinny over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Jinny: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Virginia

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Jinny means

Jinny is a diminutive of Virginia.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Jinny is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈd͡ʒɪn.i/ for Jinny.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Jinny → Virginia. The family’s proposed meaning is “maid, virgin”, recorded in the naming reference for Virginia.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Shortening, chiefly of Virginia (which is also shortened to Ginny), sometimes of Eugenia, and rarely of Genevieve (more often shortened to Genny).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Jinny (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Virginia.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 821 girls were recorded with the name Jinny between 1940 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 27 in 1977; its best national rank was #2,762 in 1948.

How common is Jinny?

Jinny had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 557,000
6 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 270,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
386,177 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Jinny sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 386,177 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Jinny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Jinnys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Jinny was born before 1977 — so the typical Jinny is around 48 today.

Median birth year
1977
About 48 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
6.7%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
735
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (183).

Is Jinny rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1977 (27)
Years since peak
48
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
50.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,762
1948

Spellings of Jinny

Jinny is not the most common spelling — Cindy is, with 33.0% against Jinny's 0.11%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Jinny is used

Across 1910–2025, Jinny was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 891,224 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2New York1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Jinny has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Jinny around the world

Where Jinny ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2011–2011
    #5,785
    in 2011
  • France
    2013–2013
    #7,374
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1991–2022
    #3,322
    in 2022
  • South Australia
    1975–1975
    #675
    in 1975

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Jinny by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#2,762
1948
Peak year
1977
27 that year
First recorded
1940
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
821
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Jinny

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Jinny

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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