Jennie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of Jane/Jenny; "God is gracious"
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Jennie 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.
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 216as Jenny
- HKHong Kong≈1 in 553as Jenny
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 Jennie 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 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈740,000 named Jenny, est.
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Netherlands
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 6 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)
diminutive of Jane/Jenny; "God is gracious"
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Jennie 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 | 111,784as Jenny | 1 in 3K | 111K | Jenny | 579 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈56,000 est. | ≈1 in 870 | 47 | Jeny | 50 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 54,391as Jenny | 1 in 311 | 54K | Jenny | 56 |
| SE Sweden | #15 | 47,334as Jenny | 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 | 7,920as Jenny | 1 in 690 | 25K | Jenny | 86 |
| NL Netherlands | #303 | 1,377 | 1 in 13K | 4.6K | Jenny | 95 |
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); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Jennie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the female given names Jane and Jennifer, also used as a formal given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a female given name, variant of Jenny
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Jennie Tuttle Hobartb. 1849USSecond Lady of the United States (1849-1941)
- Jennie Augusta Brownscombeb. 1850USAmerican painter (1850-1936)
- Jennie Fletcherb. 1890GBBritish swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder
- Jennie Tourelb. 1900USsinger (1900–1973)
- Jennie Garthb. 1972USAmerican actress
- Jennie Snyder Urmanb. 1975USAmerican television producer
- Jennie Elizabeth Eisenhowerb. 1978USAmerican actress
- Jennie Finchb. 1980USAmerican softball player (born 1980)
- Jennie Kimb. 1996KRSouth Korean singer-songwriter and rapper (born 1996)
- Jennie Wåhlinb. 1997SESwedish female curler
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 68 sources across 39 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 40K | #1,058 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 12K | #358 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 8.7K | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 1.4K | #1,331 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 1.4K | #1,042 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 914 | #2,209 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 473 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 393 | #1,231 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 291 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 79 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 56 | #1,058 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #8,898 |
Reference works 4
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jennie mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of Jane/Jenny; "God is gracious" Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Jennie?
- In the etymology graph, Jennifer, Janet and Janice are forms of the same name in other languages; Jenelle, Janetta and Jenessa are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Jean and Jane.
- Is Jennie a male or female name?
- Jennie 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 Jennie have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 745 thousand people named Jenny in China, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Jennie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jennie is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though China holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jennie?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,377 people named Jennie, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Jennie compared with other names?
- In Sweden, Jennie is the 15th most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jennie?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jennieThe 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, “Jennie” — the 15th most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.