Penina
Penina was given to 20 girls in 2025, #6,059 among girls’ names; 1,009 Americans have been recorded with it since 1953 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Penina by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Penina?
#6,059 among girls’ names, 2025
Penina rose from #6,917 in 2015 to #6,059 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 10.1 to 12.4 per million.
39 babies in 2022, the peak
Penina peaked in 2022, when 39 girls were given it, #3,876 among girls’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 51% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,059 | 12.4 |
| 2024 | 30 | #4,637 | 18.5 |
| 2023 | 16 | #7,173 | 10.0 |
| 2022 | 39 | #3,876 | 23.8 |
| 2021 | 28 | #4,806 | 17.1 |
| 2020 | 30 | #4,519 | 18.6 |
| 2019 | 33 | #4,319 | 19.7 |
| 2018 | 27 | #4,972 | 15.9 |
| 2017 | 21 | #5,983 | 12.2 |
| 2016 | 20 | #6,357 | 11.3 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,917 | 10.1 |
| 2014 | 29 | #4,867 | 16.2 |
| 2013 | 21 | #6,195 | 12.0 |
| 2012 | 24 | #5,676 | 13.6 |
| 2011 | 23 | #5,885 | 13.1 |
| 2010 | 30 | #4,831 | 16.9 |
| 2009 | 19 | #7,002 | 10.3 |
| 2008 | 20 | #6,747 | 10.6 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,024 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,765 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 22 | #5,739 | 11.9 |
| 2004 | 14 | #8,122 | 7.6 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,482 | 8.2 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,348 | 8.3 |
| 2001 | 17 | #6,545 | 9.4 |
| 2000 | 12 | #8,416 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 25 | #4,537 | 14.1 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,997 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,090 | 9.2 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,225 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 24 | #4,311 | 13.6 |
| 1994 | 26 | #4,085 | 14.6 |
| 1993 | 19 | #5,134 | 10.5 |
| 1992 | 20 | #4,983 | 10.8 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,330 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 9 | #9,013 | 4.7 |
| 1989 | 17 | #5,208 | 9.2 |
| 1988 | 20 | #4,434 | 11.2 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,645 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 15 | #5,124 | 8.7 |
| 1985 | 15 | #5,019 | 8.7 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,786 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,628 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,237 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 10 | #6,671 | 6.0 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,453 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,405 | 3.1 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,609 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,359 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,824 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,939 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,376 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,208 | 3.3 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,412 | 6.0 |
| 1969 | 9 | #5,342 | 5.3 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,863 | 3.0 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,352 | 2.6 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,506 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Penina a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Penina has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 58 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Penina: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Penina, and how old are they?
An estimated 989 Americans named Penina and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 10 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 986 people named Penina (986 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 839 born in the U.S. The Census count is 18% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Penina born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 8 | #1,623 | 4.5× |
Where Penina is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Penina is most over-represented in New York: since 1953 it was given 4.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Penina with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 5 names spelled alike, given to 105,252 babies since 1880, Penina is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 388 babies (5.2%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Penina
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Penina and names like it
- Compare Penina and PennyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sPenina peaked in 2022.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Penina since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Penina.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Penina alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with PMost given first.