Penn — #2951 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Penn

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,160 babies named Penn between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Penn currently holds the #2951 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2014, when 79 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Penn performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 539 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Penn shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 85 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Penn in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Penn 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 1,160 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.