Girls' name · since 1905
Pencie
Pencie has 21 recorded births since 1905 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1914 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #45,573 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 21
- born since 1905
- 1920s
- peak decade
21 girls have been named Pencie since 1905, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Pencie has 21 recorded births among girls since 1905, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1920s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1905 to 1923.
- #45,573 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 21 born since 1905
- 1920s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Pencie ranks #45,573 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 21 born since 1905, peaking in the 1920s.
- #45,573 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 21
- born since 1905
- 1920s
- peak decade
Pencie's 21 recorded births place it above 36.74% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Pencie's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Pencie's full recorded timeline at 1920, 48% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 52% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1905, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1914 peak of 6 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Pencie popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1905–1923
- Peak year (1914)
- 6
- Annual births at peak, across 19 years of records
Pencie by decade
1920s is the heaviest window (10 births, 48% of the file).
1920s was Pencie's strongest decade.
10 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 48% of all-time use.
Pencie births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1900s
1900s
5 births
- 1910s
1910s
6 births
- 1920s
1920s
10 births
What this shows Peak: 1920s at 10 births (48% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Pencie: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~1914)
Similar record span (~18 yrs)
Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1905–1923 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Pencie draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.