Penina
#6,059 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Penina has been given to 1,009 babies in the U.S. since 1953. In 2025 it ranked #6,059 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 39 recorded.
Babies named Penina, 2025
1 in 166,000
Penina over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Penina?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 166,000
- 20 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 80,400
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #6,059
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 114,896 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Penina sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 114,896 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Penina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Peninas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Penina was born before 2005 — so the typical Penina is around 20 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 24.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 56.1%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,009
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 24.4% of all recorded uses (246).
Is Penina 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
- −1,422
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,540
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +858
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 1.11×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 51.3%
- Peak was 2022 (39)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.6% average annual change
Spellings of Penina
Penina is not the most common spelling — Regina is, with 24.1% against Penina's 0.13%.
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 Penina is used
Across 1910–2025, Penina was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 79,414 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1New Jersey1 in 33,333
- 2New York1 in 50,000
- 3California1 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. Penina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Penina around the world
Where Penina 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 & Wales1997–2018#5,666in 2018
- France1996–2019#5,348in 2019
- South Australia1946–2005#775in 2005
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Penina by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Penina
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Penina
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.