girls:
2k births since 1925
#3859 (32nd percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1925
#5816 (25th percentile)
The name Penney is the #5,816 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,951 recorded births since 1925. This represents the 24.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,859 (32.5% percentile) for all time with 1,951 births since 1925.
Penney first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1925 (first recorded for girls in 1925). Birth data for Penney is available in 53 out of the 94 years between 1925 and 2018. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Penney reached its peak popularity in 1962, achieving the 14.0% percentile (ranked #664) with 56 births per million. The name was most common in 1962, with 56 births per million (ranked 14.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Penney".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Penney. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Penney is pronounced as PEH-nee, which has 2 syllables.
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