Penina — #4575 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Penina

The Social Security Administration has registered 989 babies named Penina between 1953 and 2024, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Penina currently holds the #4575 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2022, when 39 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Penina performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 246 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Penina shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 291 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New Jersey and California. In total, SSA state-level files list Penina in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Penina in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 989 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.