Jenny Girl
How popular is Jenny?
#1,500 girl name in 2025
142 baby girls were named Jenny in the US in 2025, making it the 1500th most popular girl name.
Jenny popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #1,500 for girls (▼ 110 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 142 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-49% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #964 in 2015, #1,422 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1977 (2,688 girls) |
| Highest rank | #108 in 1977 |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.1% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Jenny counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Jenny family of names ranked #850 for girls in 2025 (#762 the year before), with 271 babies in all.
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Jenny is most popular
Babies named Jenny per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
- Washington: 0.2 per 1,000 (28 girls)
- Tennessee: 0.1 per 1,000 (22 girls)
- California: 0.1 per 1,000 (113 girls)
- Texas: 0.1 per 1,000 (94 girls)
- South Carolina: 0.1 per 1,000 (10 girls)
Jenny by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 167 | #434 |
| 1890s | 237 | #526 |
| 1900s | 306 | #535 |
| 1910s | 979 | #567 |
| 1920s | 1,963 | #465 |
| 1930s | 1,937 | #433 |
| 1940s | 3,580 | #337 |
| 1950s | 8,702 | #242 |
| 1960s | 10,952 | #230 |
| 1970s | 22,902 | #108 |
| 1980s | 19,719 | #117 |
| 1990s | 10,142 | #214 |
| 2000s | 6,686 | #354 |
| 2010s | 2,884 | #760 |
| 2020s | 945 | #1,304 |
Girl names about as popular as Jenny
Questions
- Is Jenny a boy or girl name?
- Jenny is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Jenny were girls.
- How popular is the name Jenny?
- 142 baby girls were named Jenny in the US in 2025, making it the 1500th most popular girl name.
- When was Jenny most popular?
- Jenny peaked in 1977, when 2,688 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #108 in 1977.
- How many people are named Jenny?
- 92,706 babies have been named Jenny in the US since 1880. We estimate about 81,440 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 47.
- Where is Jenny most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Jenny was most common in Washington, at 0.2 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.