Penni
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Penni has been given to 2,606 babies in the U.S. since 1938. 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 1962, with 148 recorded.
Babies named Penni, 2023
1 in 474,000
Penni 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Penni?
Penni had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 229,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,234 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Penni sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Penni. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Pennis were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Penni was born before 1963 — so the typical Penni is around 62 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 45.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 2.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,388
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 45.4% of all recorded uses (1,182).
Is Penni 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
- —
- 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 1962 (148)
- Years since peak
- 63
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 23.9% average annual change
Spellings of Penni
Penni is not the most common spelling — Jenna is, with 25.0% against Penni's 0.44%.
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 Penni is used
Across 1910–2025, Penni was most concentrated in Ohio — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 135,114 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Ohio1 in 50,000
- 2California1 in 100,000
- 3Iowa1 in 100,000
- 4Illinois1 in 100,000
- 5Indiana1 in 100,000
- 6Michigan1 in 100,000
- 7New York1 in 100,000
- 8Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
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. Penni has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Penni around the world
Where Penni 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 & Wales2019–2019#5,591in 2019
- Ireland2016–2016#868in 2016
- South Australia1955–2010#801in 2010
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Penni by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Penni
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Penni
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Penni, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Penni
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.