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Pennie

#7,406 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Pennie has been given to 5,814 babies in the U.S. since 1882. In 2025 it ranked #7,406 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1963, with 258 recorded.

Babies named Pennie, 2025

1 in 221,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pennie: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pennie means

Pennie is a given name.

The naming story behind Pennie

Wikidata records Pennie as a female given name. The entity identifier is Q123569638, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,814 girls were recorded with the name Pennie between 1882 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 258 in 1963; its best national rank was #631 in 1963.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #13,131 in 2020 to #7,406 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,522 in 2015 to #7,406 in 2025.

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.

How common is Pennie?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 221,000
15 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 107,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#7,406
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
153,194 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pennie 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 2025 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pennie. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pennies were born

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

Median birth year
1960
About 65 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
31.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
3.6%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
4,385
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 31.8% of all recorded uses (1,849).

Is Pennie 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
+2,672
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,725
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+116
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
0.94×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
5.8%
Peak was 1963 (258)
Years since peak
62
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#631
1963

Spellings of Pennie

Pennie is not the most common spelling — Annie is, with 21.1% against Pennie's 0.34%.

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 Pennie is used

Across 1910–2025, Pennie was most concentrated in North Carolina — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 54,239 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1North Carolina1 in 20,000
  2. 2Michigan1 in 25,000
  3. 3California1 in 33,333
  4. 4Georgia1 in 33,333
  5. 5Indiana1 in 33,333
  6. 6Ohio1 in 33,333
  7. 7Tennessee1 in 33,333
  8. 8Alabama1 in 50,000

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

Pennie around the world

Where Pennie 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
    1997–2025
    #2,788
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2018–2021
    #652
    in 2021
  • Northern Ireland
    2015–2017
    #355
    in 2017
  • Ireland
    2016–2025
    #885
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1950–1992
    #704
    in 1992

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Pennie

People whose public names include Pennie, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Pennie in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Pennie. Linked forms have their own page here.

Penny

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Pennie by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#7,406
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,725
Best rank ever
#631
1963
Peak year
1963
258 that year
First recorded
1882
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,814
Count in 2025
15

Names similar to Pennie

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

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Names with a curve like Pennie

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Pennie, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

GerriNannetteFondaMaryjoDorindaGeriTenaTeressaSuzyLaureenMaribethRona

Sibling names for Pennie

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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