Penni
Penni was last recorded in 2023, when 7 babies were given it; 2,606 Americans have been recorded with it between 1938 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,210 Americans named Penni and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (85% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 56 and 67.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Penni by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Penni?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #13,126, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
148 babies in 1962, the peak
Penni peaked in 1962, when 148 girls were given it, #869 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 7 | #13,126 | 4.4 |
| 2021 | 5 | #17,075 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,130 | 4.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,471 | 3.5 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,603 | 4.5 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,477 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,555 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 6 | #16,060 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,624 | 4.0 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,470 | 4.0 |
Every recorded year (60)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 5 | #14,575 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,526 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,271 | 4.7 |
| 1985 | 8 | #8,094 | 4.6 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,166 | 6.5 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,715 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,477 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,118 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,678 | 9.6 |
| 1979 | 27 | #3,130 | 16.8 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,603 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 24 | #3,238 | 15.7 |
| 1976 | 22 | #3,255 | 15.0 |
| 1975 | 41 | #2,122 | 28.1 |
| 1974 | 42 | #2,022 | 28.6 |
| 1973 | 41 | #2,002 | 28.1 |
| 1972 | 50 | #1,762 | 32.9 |
| 1971 | 72 | #1,453 | 43.3 |
| 1970 | 79 | #1,341 | 45.2 |
| 1969 | 78 | #1,273 | 46.2 |
| 1968 | 84 | #1,185 | 51.2 |
| 1967 | 107 | #987 | 64.8 |
| 1966 | 102 | #1,028 | 60.3 |
| 1965 | 129 | #881 | 73.1 |
| 1964 | 147 | #860 | 77.6 |
| 1963 | 136 | #902 | 70.6 |
| 1962 | 148 | #869 | 75.3 |
| 1961 | 129 | #954 | 63.9 |
| 1960 | 122 | #968 | 60.3 |
| 1959 | 121 | #958 | 59.8 |
| 1958 | 83 | #1,167 | 41.3 |
| 1957 | 73 | #1,235 | 35.7 |
| 1956 | 60 | #1,347 | 29.9 |
| 1955 | 52 | #1,395 | 26.6 |
| 1954 | 52 | #1,403 | 26.8 |
| 1953 | 51 | #1,369 | 27.1 |
| 1952 | 45 | #1,449 | 24.3 |
| 1951 | 41 | #1,476 | 22.8 |
| 1950 | 36 | #1,567 | 21.0 |
| 1949 | 39 | #1,483 | 22.8 |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,568 | 21.2 |
| 1947 | 34 | #1,656 | 19.2 |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,671 | 18.5 |
| 1945 | 18 | #2,039 | 13.8 |
| 1944 | 22 | #1,854 | 16.6 |
| 1943 | 8 | #3,744 | 5.7 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,150 | 7.4 |
| 1941 | 9 | #3,189 | 7.4 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,238 | 5.2 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,763 | 6.3 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Penni a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Penni has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 60 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Penni: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Penni, and how old are they?
2,210 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 85% of the 2,606 Americans ever recorded as Penni. The median Penni alive today is 62 years old; half are between 56 and 67.
The 2020 Census counted 2,221 people named Penni (2,217 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,314 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 41 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 1,160 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 856 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 91 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 14 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 49 |
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).
Where are babies named Penni born?
The states with the most babies named Penni are California, New York and Ohio, with 47% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 187 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 116 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 115 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 98 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 67 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 66 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 57 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Indiana | 37 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Iowa | 31 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Georgia | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Penni with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Penni?
Penni is a less common spelling of Penny: SSA has recorded 2,606 Penni and 101,003 Penny since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 113,240 babies since 1880, Penni is the third most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 none of their 403 babies recorded by SSA was a Penni (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Penni
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 Penni and names like it
- Compare Penni and PennyBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sPenni peaked in 1962.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Penni since 1910.
- The top names of 1962The year the most babies were named Penni.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Penni alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.