Jènny
given name · Latin script
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
Jènny is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country. In Sweden it is the 15th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine.
- SESweden1 in 216(measured from records)
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 553
- NONorway1 in 690
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jènny itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- #500 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 579 (measured from records)
- 1 in 216 (inferred from the name graph)
≈740,000 people, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Jenny in US United States, PH Philippines, SE Sweden and 5 more and Jeny in CO Colombia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine.
Sources 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- 2500 noms propres devenus communs : dictionnaire étymologique (éponymes, antonomases et hypallages)
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jènny counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | — | ≈740,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.9K | — | Jenny | 90 |
| PH Philippines | #103 | ≈140,000 est. | ≈1 in 764 | — | Jenny | 161 |
| US United States | #251 | 111,784 | 1 in 3K | 111K | Jenny | 579 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 870 | 47 | Jeny | 50 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 54,391 | 1 in 311 | 54K | Jenny | 56 |
| SE Sweden | #15 | 47,334 | 1 in 216 | 47K | Jenny | 146 |
| FI Finland | — | 17,937as Jenni | 1 in 311 | 20K | Jenny | 65 |
| HK Hong Kong | #61 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 553 | — | Jenny | 85 |
| NO Norway | #378 | 7,920 | 1 in 690 | 25K | Jenny | 86 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); the co-datosgov-candidates register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jènny mean, and where does it come from?
- Partially from generic use of the female given name Jenny (cf. Jane) and partially from informal pronunciations of engine. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland and 5 other sources.
- Is Jènny a male or female name?
- Jènny is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Jènny have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 745 thousand people named Jènny in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jenny.
- Where is Jènny most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jènny is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 216 people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jènny?
- In the United States, the national register counted 111,784 people named Jènny in 2020, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
- How common is Jènny compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Jènny is the 15th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/j%C3%A8nnyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jènny” — the 15th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.