Penney — girls' name

What the Data Says About Penney

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,951 babies named Penney between 1925 and 2018, spanning 94 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Penney currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1962, when 113 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Penney performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 746 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Penney shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 85 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Penney in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Penney 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 1,951 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.