Penny Girl
How popular is Penny?
#740 girl name in 2025
368 baby girls were named Penny in the US in 2025, making it the 740th most popular girl name.
Penny popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #740 for girls (▲ 7 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 368 girls |
| 10-year trend | Steady (-1% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #757 in 2015, #725 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1963 (5,129 girls) |
| Highest rank | #86 in 1963 |
| First recorded | 1882 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Penny counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Penny family of names ranked #694 for girls in 2025 (#699 the year before), with 383 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Penny | 368 | 96% |
| Pennie | 15 | 4% |
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 Penny is most popular
Babies named Penny per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Penny by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 11 | #908 |
| 1890s | 29 | #1,209 |
| 1900s | 50 | #1,339 |
| 1910s | 146 | #1,369 |
| 1920s | 467 | #889 |
| 1930s | 1,128 | #317 |
| 1940s | 13,113 | #142 |
| 1950s | 25,123 | #122 |
| 1960s | 38,220 | #86 |
| 1970s | 12,578 | #157 |
| 1980s | 2,951 | #407 |
| 1990s | 783 | #1,326 |
| 2000s | 623 | #1,979 |
| 2010s | 3,024 | #692 |
| 2020s | 2,373 | #676 |
Girl names about as popular as Penny
Questions
- Is Penny a boy or girl name?
- Penny is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Penny were girls.
- How popular is the name Penny?
- 368 baby girls were named Penny in the US in 2025, making it the 740th most popular girl name.
- When was Penny most popular?
- Penny peaked in 1963, when 5,129 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #86 in 1963.
- How many people are named Penny?
- 101,003 babies have been named Penny in the US since 1880. We estimate about 85,057 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 63.
- Where is Penny most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Penny was most common in Utah, at 1.8 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.