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Peni

Girls' name

Form of Ben

Peni has been given to 149 babies in the U.S. since 1946. 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 1958, with 13 recorded.

Babies named Peni, 1972

1 in 393,000

Peni over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Peni: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Ben

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Peni means

Peni is a form of Ben.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Peni is used in Hawaiian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Peni → Ben → Benjamin. The family’s meaning is “A Canadian hundred-dollar note”, recorded in English with the source elements Benjamin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Ben.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Peni is pronounced /ˈpe.ni/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 144 girls were recorded with the name Peni between 1946 and 1972. Its highest annual count was 13 in 1958; its best national rank was #3,502 in 1958.

In the United States, 5 boys were recorded with the name Peni between 1995 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1995; its best national rank was #9,912 in 1995.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Peni?

Peni had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1972, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1972
1 in 393,000
8 of 3,142,796 births
Among girls only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1972
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
272,304 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Peni 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 1972 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 272,304 children born in 1972 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Peni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Penis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Peni was born before 1960 — so the typical Peni is around 65 today.

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
91.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
126
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (66).

Is Peni 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1958 (13)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,502
1958

Spellings of Peni

Peni is not the most common spelling — Lena is, with 16.8% against Peni's 0.02%.

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 Peni is used

Across 1910–2025, Peni was most concentrated in Michigan — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,215,656 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Michigan1 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. Peni has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Peni around the world

Where Peni 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.

  • South Australia
    1958–1981
    #616
    in 1981

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Peni 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
#3,502
1958
Peak year
1958
13 that year
First recorded
1946
Last recorded
1972
All-time count
144
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,912
1995
Peak year
1995
5 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Peni

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

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Sibling names for Peni

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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