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Yenny

Girls' name

Variant of Jenny

Yenny has been given to 245 babies in the U.S. since 1980. 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 2001, with 15 recorded.

Babies named Yenny, 2022

1 in 564,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yenny: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Jenny

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Yenny means

Yenny is a variant of Jenny.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Yenny is used in Spanish (Latin American).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈɟ͡ʝe.ni/ for Yenny.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yenny → Jenny → Jennifer → *Gwɨnnohuɨβar. The family’s proposed meaning is “white”, recorded in Proto-Brythonic with the source elements gwɨnn.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Jenny.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 245 girls were recorded with the name Yenny between 1980 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 15 in 2001; its best national rank was #7,057 in 1992.

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 Yenny?

Yenny had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 564,000
6 of 3,385,755 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,139 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yenny 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 2022 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 391,139 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yenny. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yennys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yenny was born before 2000 — so the typical Yenny is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
41.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
56.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
245
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 41.6% of all recorded uses (102).

Is Yenny 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2001 (15)
Years since peak
24
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,057
1992

Spellings of Yenny

Yenny is not the most common spelling — Wendy is, with 36.9% against Yenny's 0.03%.

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 Yenny is used

Across 1910–2025, Yenny was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 432,778 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Yenny has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yenny around the world

Where Yenny 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
    1996–1996
    #712
    in 1996

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

Yenny 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
#7,057
1992
Peak year
2001
15 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
245
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Yenny

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

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Sibling names for Yenny

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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