Penni — girls' name

What the Data Says About Penni

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,605 babies named Penni between 1938 and 2023, spanning 86 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Penni currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1962, when 148 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Penni performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 1,181 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Penni shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 186 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Penni in 23 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Penni 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 2,605 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.