# Jennie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/jennie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 127,660 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 479 / 127,181 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 314, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 63 | 2,779 |
| 2012 | 62 | 2,818 |
| 2013 | 62 | 2,786 |
| 2014 | 62 | 2,795 |
| 2015 | 74 | 2,461 |
| 2016 | 49 | 3,302 |
| 2017 | 50 | 3,217 |
| 2018 | 45 | 3,460 |
| 2019 | 67 | 2,614 |
| 2020 | 59 | 2,800 |
| 2021 | 59 | 2,866 |
| 2022 | 68 | 2,591 |
| 2023 | 78 | 2,344 |
| 2024 | 115 | 1,759 |
| 2025 | 79 | 2,309 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1946 | 6 | 3,343 |
| 1947 | 7 | 3,222 |
| 1952 | 5 | 3,986 |
| 1955 | 6 | 3,689 |
| 1962 | 5 | 4,327 |
| 1965 | 5 | 4,173 |
| 1968 | 5 | 4,408 |
| 1975 | 5 | 5,858 |
| 1978 | 6 | 5,383 |
| 1979 | 6 | 5,672 |
| 1980 | 6 | 5,862 |
| 1983 | 5 | 6,723 |
| 1985 | 9 | 4,484 |
| 1987 | 6 | 6,468 |
| 1988 | 5 | 7,826 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 5 | 4,012 |
| 2011 | 7 | 3,185 |
| 2012 | 7 | 3,285 |
| 2013 | 4 | 4,739 |
| 2014 | 7 | 3,160 |
| 2015 | 6 | 3,615 |
| 2016 | 7 | 3,214 |
| 2017 | 6 | 3,583 |
| 2018 | 5 | 3,985 |
| 2020 | 7 | 3,117 |
| 2021 | 11 | 2,341 |
| 2022 | 3 | 5,669 |
| 2023 | 7 | 3,218 |
| 2024 | 5 | 4,192 |
| 2025 | 9 | 2,788 |

## People named Jennie

- Jennie Garth, American actress
- Jennie Finch, American softball player (born 1980)
- Jennie Fletcher, British swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder
- Jennie Reed, American cyclist
- Jennie Kwan, American actress
- Jennie Kidd Trout, Canadian physician
- Jennie Augusta Brownscombe, American painter (1850-1936)
- Jennie Lee, American actress (1848-1925)
- Jennie Jacques, British actress
- Jennie Livingston, American film director
- Jennie Lee, Baroness Lee of Asheridge, British politician (1904-1988)
- Jennie Carignan, Canadian general (born 1968)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.