Jinny
given name · Latin script
Meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Virginia
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 17 countries · latest register: SSA, 2024
/ʝini/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Jinny is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 54K(inferred from the name graph)
- SGSingapore≈1 in 62Kfew records
- CACanada≈1 in 93Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 280 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 32K (inferred from the name graph)
≈2,200 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Hong Kong, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)A diminutive of the female given name Virginia.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jinny 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 54K | — | Jinny | 25 |
| US United States | — | 1,333 | 1 in 250K | 1.3K | Jinny | 280 |
| IN India | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | 8 | Jinny | 46 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈450 est. | ≈1 in 93K | 1 | Jinny | 74 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈320 est. | ≈1 in 219K | listed | Jinny | 81 |
| HK Hong Kong | — | ≈230 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Jinny | 7 |
| TW Taiwan | — | ≈200 est. | ≈1 in 118K | — | Jinny | 9 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈97 est. | ≈1 in 62K | — | Jinny | 21 |
| MW Malawi | #830 | — | — | — | Jinny | 3 |
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; the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls. 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jinny Johnsonb. 1949born:1949-01-31|; Johnson, Jinny; Johnson, Jinny May 1949-
- Jinny Simsb. 1952CACanadian politician
- Jinny Steffanb. 1958ITItalian actress
- Jinny Jacintob. 1976CACanadian contortionist
- Jinny M. J. Yub. 1976CAKorean-born Canadian painter (born 1976)
- Jinny Parkb. 1998USsinger
- Jinny Lee PetrofskyUSexecutive assistant
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)31 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 17 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.3K | #10,118 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 49 | #10,118 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1977 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1985 | 25 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1980 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1978 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1974 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1984 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1982 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1981 | 19 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1986 | 18 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1979 | 18 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 Jinny mean, and where does it come from?
- A diminutive of the female given name Virginia. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Jinny?
- In the etymology graph, Gina, Virginie and Ginger are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Jinny?
- In Spanish /ʝini/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Is Jinny a male or female name?
- Jinny is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Jinny have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 2.2 thousand people named Jinny in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled jinny.
- How common is the name Jinny?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,333 people named Jinny in 2020, about 1 in 250 thousand residents.
- How common is Jinny compared with other names?
- In Malawi, Jinny is the 830th most common given name of 3,102 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jinnyThe 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, “Jinny” — the 830th most common given name in Malawi. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.