Jênny

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Jênny is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Ecuador it is the 69th 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.

rarermore common
  • ECEcuador1 in 311(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 878
  • USUnited States1 in 3K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

111,784 people, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
406 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 216 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Jenny in US United States, EC Ecuador, SE Sweden and 1 more.

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 13 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jênny 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.

Where Jênny is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—111,7841 in 3K111KJenny406
EC Ecuador#6954,3911 in 31154KJenny65
SE Sweden—47,3341 in 21647KJenny57
NO Norway—7,9201 in 69025K—21
FI Finland—5,9231 in 94117K—21
CR Costa Rica#725,8071 in 8785.8KJenny74

111,784 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); 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); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jênny is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Thai given name33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Thailand, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Thai, Lao

    Also written Jenny, เจนนี่, เจนน, เจนนี้, Chennu

  • Finnish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Finland, Hungary

    Languages: Finnish, Hungarian, Estonian

    Also written Jenny, Jënny, Jënnÿ, Jénny

1 further group record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Jênny under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Jênny 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 Jênny a male or female name?
Jênny 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 Jênny have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 112 thousand people named Jênny, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jenny.
Where is Jênny most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jênny is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 216 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Jênny?
In the United States, the national register counted 111,784 people named Jênny in 2020, about 1 in 3.0 thousand residents.
How common is Jênny compared with other names?
In Ecuador, Jênny is the 69th most common given name of 27,061 given names recorded there.

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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, “Jênny” — the 69th most common given name in Ecuador. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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