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Pennie

Gender
Girl
Say it
PEN-ee
Origin
Greek
UK rank, 2025
#2,856 for girls
US rank, 2025
#7,131 for girls

Pennie is a girls' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 2,856th for girls in the UK (9 babies) and 7,131st for girls in the US (15 babies).

What does Pennie mean?

Greek: spelling of Penny, a pet form of Penelope

A spelling of Penny, originally a pet form of Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus.

Is Pennie a girl's or a boy's name?

Pennie is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 girls in the UK and 15 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Pennie in the UK?

Rank in 2025
2,856th among girls
Babies in 2025
9 about 1 in 31,000 girls
Five-year trend
Steady down 24% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 9 girls in the UK were named Pennie, making it the 2,856th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 3,009th. Its busiest year was 2019, with 21 girls.

Half of all the girls named Pennie in the UK since 1996 were born between 2014 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 254 girls in the UK were given Pennie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #221, up from #2,856 for this spelling alone.

Among girls in 2025, it was 2,786th in England and Wales.

1997Busiest: 21 in 20192025
Pennie in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20259#2,856
20248#3,076
202318#1,728
20224#4,870
202114#2,069
20208#3,009
201921#1,531
201817#1,810
201715#2,011
20169#2,893
201515#1,988
201413#2,189
20138#3,060
20124#5,058
20117#3,360
20104#4,931
20094#4,795
20080–
20070–
20060–
20050–
20040–
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19993#4,041
19980–
19974#3,345

How popular is Pennie in the US?

Rank in 2025
7,131st among girls
Babies in 2025
15 about 1 in 110,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 15 girls in the US were named Pennie, making it the 7,131st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 1963, with 258 girls. It first appears in the records in 1882.

2025 had more girls named Pennie than any year since 2015.

Half of all the girls named Pennie in the US since 1880 were born between 1950 and 1968, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 383 girls in the US were given Pennie or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #723, up from #7,131 for this spelling alone.

1882Busiest: 258 in 19632025
Pennie in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
202515#7,131
202410#9,551
202313#8,050
20226#13,586
20216#13,459
20207#12,137
20195#15,532
20189#10,540
20179#10,685
201611#9,408
201516#7,263
201412#8,961
201311#9,607
201210#10,424
201111#9,719
20108#12,270
20099#11,454
20085#17,498
20070–
20067#13,601
20058#11,828
20049#10,684
200310#9,666
20020–
20015#15,345
20000–
19998#10,338
19986#12,420
19970–
19960–
19957#10,509
199410#8,116
19938#9,552
19929#8,726
199111#7,423
199016#5,544
198918#4,842
198817#4,835
198716#4,853
198621#3,888
198526#3,327
198429#2,991
198332#2,720
198226#3,259
198129#2,986
198030#2,940
197939#2,387
197844#2,125
197757#1,774
197643#2,027
197558#1,655
197463#1,532
197394#1,160
197286#1,226
1971114#1,057
1970109#1,088
1969135#912
1968128#913
1967134#880
1966145#826
1965208#680
1964208#718
1963258#631
1962230#677
1961212#712
1960191#733
1959198#710
1958160#792
1957168#770
1956134#860
1955120#889
1954124#846
1953102#933
1952101#920
195198#927
195093#923
194990#934
1948104#857
1947109#837
194685#907
194554#1,060
194469#925
194368#952
194233#1,413
194127#1,501
194033#1,294
193927#1,424
193818#1,873
193712#2,447
19367#3,374
19357#3,429
193414#2,186
193316#1,970
193213#2,363
193115#2,104
193012#2,551
192912#2,586
192812#2,622
192721#1,884
192618#2,075
192522#1,846
192424#1,770
192315#2,366
192218#2,109
192120#1,988
192022#1,816
191922#1,745
191821#1,805
191725#1,507
191618#1,867
191513#2,254
191415#1,740
191320#1,274
191218#1,252
191111#1,450
191021#941
19098#1,607
190814#1,084
190720#840
190610#1,229
190513#1,057
19049#1,250
19039#1,204
19026#1,593
19019#1,136
190010#1,230
18998#1,180
189812#1,009
189716#786
189610#1,047
18955#1,592
189416#744
18937#1,175
189212#861
18917#1,093
18909#940
18897#1,024
18880–
18870–
18867#897
18859#745
18840–
18836#817
18829#634

Names like Pennie

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Bonnie, Dottie, Rosie, Lottie, Elsie, Effie, Annie, Frankie, Georgie, Nellie, Hattie, Polly

Other spellings of Pennie

Penny

Names related to Pennie

Penina

More Greek names

Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Penelope, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe

Every Greek name

Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Pennie: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/pennie, updated 20 October 2026.