Peñi

loc · Latin script

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

Peñi is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Proto-Finnic *peni, from Proto-Uralic *penä. Cognate with Estonian peni, Northern Sami beana, Erzya пине (pińe).

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 1M(measured from records)
  • CRCosta Rica1 in 5.1M

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)

325 people, 2020

Sources
4 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.0M (inferred from the name graph)

United States

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 Peni in TR Türkiye.

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)

Derivation of Peñi: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Peñi
  1. Proto-Finnic*peni(measured from records)
  2. Proto-Uralic*penä(measured from records)

From Proto-Finnic *peni, from Proto-Uralic *penä. Cognate with Estonian peni, Northern Sami beana, Erzya пине (pińe).

Sources 2

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Peñi 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 Peñi is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States3251 in 1M171—2
CR Costa Rica11 in 5.1M1——
TR Türkiye———Peni4
FI Finland——285——
BR Brazil——73——

325 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: DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname); 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)

Peñi is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Estonian given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Peni

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written ფენი, Peni

  • English given name6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Australia, United Kingdom, New Zealand

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Peni

  • Arabic name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Peni, Pëńì, Péni

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Peni, Pení

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 Peñi 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 Peñi mean, and where does it come from?
From Proto-Finnic *peni, from Proto-Uralic *penä. Cognate with Estonian peni, Northern Sami beana, Erzya пине (pińe). Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
In which country does Peñi have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 325 people named Peñi, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Peñi most common?
Peñi is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.0 million people carrying it.
How common is the name Peñi?
In the United States, the national register counted 325 people named Peñi in 2020, about 1 in 1.0 million residents.

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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, “Peñi”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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