Jinny

given name · Latin script

Meaning: A diminutive of the female given name Virginia

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

Jinny is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 50K(inferred from the name graph)
  • USUnited States1 in 250K
  • HKHong Kong≈1 in 34K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

China (inferred from the name graph)

≈9,700 people, est.

Sources
280 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 34K (inferred from the name graph)

Hong Kong, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Meaning & origin(measured from records)

A diminutive of the female given name Virginia.

Sources 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.

Where Jinny is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CN China—≈9,700 est.≈1 in 144K—Jinny12
PH Philippines—≈2,200 est.≈1 in 50K—Jinny25
US United States—1,3331 in 250K1.3KJinny280
CA Canada—≈410 est.≈1 in 91K1Jinny74
GB United Kingdom—≈290 est.≈1 in 226KlistedJinny81
TW Taiwan—≈230 est.≈1 in 102K—Jinny9
HK Hong Kong—≈210 est.≈1 in 34K—Jinny7
SG Singapore—≈98 est.≈1 in 63K—Jinny21
MW Malawi#830———Jinny3

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. 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)

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

  • Korean given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, South Korea, Canada, Malaysia

    Also written Jinnie, Jinni, 진니

  • English given name82 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Hindi

    Also written Ginny, จินนี่, จันนี, จินน, จุนัน

45 further groups 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.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Jinny Johnson, b. 1949Jinny Sims, b. 1952Jinny Steffan, b. 1958Jinny Jacinto, b. 1976Jinny M. J. Yu, b. 1976Jinny Park, b. 1998

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 31 sources across 17 countries.

Official registers attesting Jinny
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.3K#10,118
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202049#10,118
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197727—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198525—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198023—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197822—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197422—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198421—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198221—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198119—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)198618—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)197918—

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).
Is Jinny a male or female name?
Jinny 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.
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.
In which country does Jinny have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 9.7 thousand people named Jinny in China, 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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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 2026-10-10.

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