Jennie
Jennie is a girl's name that peaked in 1917, when it was the 81st most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 2,298th. About 37,000 Jennies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Jennie boys named Jennie
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 127,660
- Estimated living today
- 37,000
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1917
- Best rank
- 81st
- Rank in 2025
- 2,298th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 127,181 / 479
How old the living Jennies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 127,660 babies given the name since 1880, about 37,000 are alive — 29 in every hundred. Roughly 1,200 of them are children and 13,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Jennies
- Jennie (born 1996)South Korean singer-songwriter and rapper
- Jennie Garth (born 1972)American actress
- Jennie Johansson (born 1988)Swedish swimmer
- Jennie Fletcher (1890–1968)British swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder
- Jennie Finch (born 1980)American softball player
- Jennie Reed (born 1978)American cyclist
- Jennie Kwan (born 1973)American actress
- Jennie Kidd Trout (1841–1921)Canadian physician
People named Jennie with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Jennie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Jennie is most concentrated in New Mexico (2.5×), Connecticut (2.3×), Rhode Island (2.1×), Massachusetts (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1917
The most popular girls’ names the year Jennie peaked:
Jennie elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France girls | Jennie | 445 | 2,250th |
| Norway girls | Jennie | 433 | 189th |
| England and Wales girls | Jennie | 314 | 753rd |
| Scotland girls | Jennie | 62 | 369th |
| Ireland girls | Jennie | 54 | 362nd |
| Northern Ireland girls | Jennie | 3 | 384th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Jennie by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 14 | 284th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Jennie among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Jennie | 256 | 294 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Jennie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.