Penn
Penn was given to 48 boys in 2025, #2,706 among boys’ names; 1,230 Americans have been recorded with it since 1915 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Penn and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 6 and 15.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Penn by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Penn?
#2,706 among boys’ names, 2025
Penn fell from #2,343 in 2015 to #2,706 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 29.2 to 28.1 per million.
80 babies in 2020, the peak
Penn peaked in 2020, when 80 babies were given it (73 boys, #1,973 among boys’ names). The 48 births of 2025 are 60% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #2,706 | 28.1 |
| 2024 | 42 | #2,989 | 24.4 |
| 2023 | 69 | #2,120 | 40.3 |
| 2022 | 54 | #2,550 | 30.9 |
| 2021 | 64 | #2,214 | 36.6 |
| 2020 | 73 | #1,973 | 42.3 |
| 2019 | 67 | #2,144 | 37.3 |
| 2018 | 49 | #2,605 | 27.0 |
| 2017 | 61 | #2,210 | 33.0 |
| 2016 | 64 | #2,159 | 33.7 |
Every recorded year (58)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 56 | #2,343 | 29.2 |
| 2014 | 79 | #1,869 | 41.1 |
| 2013 | 53 | #2,388 | 28.0 |
| 2012 | 46 | #2,665 | 24.2 |
| 2011 | 34 | #3,287 | 17.9 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,606 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,455 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,498 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,179 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,852 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 10 | #7,510 | 5.0 |
| 2004 | 7 | #9,674 | 3.5 |
| 2003 | 8 | #8,423 | 4.0 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,354 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,880 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 6 | #9,566 | 3.1 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,325 | 3.1 |
| 1997 | 5 | #10,389 | 2.7 |
| 1992 | 7 | #7,193 | 3.5 |
| 1989 | 8 | #6,066 | 4.0 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,921 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,760 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 5 | #7,305 | 2.7 |
| 1983 | 6 | #6,028 | 3.3 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,077 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,675 | 3.2 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,251 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,842 | 3.9 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,523 | 3.5 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,502 | 2.4 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,220 | 3.7 |
| 1957 | 7 | #3,476 | 3.2 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,251 | 2.4 |
| 1954 | 7 | #3,384 | 3.4 |
| 1953 | 5 | #4,210 | 2.5 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,639 | 3.1 |
| 1949 | 7 | #3,224 | 3.9 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,652 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 7 | #3,110 | 4.3 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,657 | 3.7 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,439 | 5.4 |
| 1930 | 5 | #4,414 | 4.6 |
| 1926 | 5 | #4,674 | 4.5 |
| 1924 | 6 | #4,229 | 5.3 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,805 | 4.6 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,806 | 4.7 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,875 | 6.5 |
| 1915 | 7 | #3,316 | 8.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Penn a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,230 Americans recorded as Penn, 2% are girls and 98% boys. In 2025 it went to 48 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Penn: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Penn, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,230 Americans ever recorded as Penn. The median Penn alive today is 10 years old; half are between 6 and 15.
The 2020 Census counted 1,083 people named Penn (155 women and girls, 928 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 823 born in the U.S. The Census count is 32% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 4 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 45 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 20 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 38 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 243 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 795 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Penn
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.
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