Name profile

Jennie

This name is a variant of Jenny.

PronunciationEnglish /ˈd͡ʒɛn.i/; Swedish /ˈjɛ.nɪ/
Usage languagesDutch, English, Swedish
US rank (2025)#2,298

Meaning and history

Jennie is a variant of Jenny and was the more common spelling before the 20th century.

Popularity over timeUS births · girls
20062006: 111 births, rank #1,833
2007: 89 births, rank #2,213
2008: 91 births, rank #2,184
2009: 88 births, rank #2,227
2010: 73 births, rank #2,514
20112011: 63 births, rank #2,763
2012: 62 births, rank #2,805
2013: 62 births, rank #2,769
2014: 62 births, rank #2,781
2015: 74 births, rank #2,456
20162016: 49 births, rank #3,280
2017: 50 births, rank #3,192
2018: 45 births, rank #3,438
2019: 67 births, rank #2,593
2020: 59 births, rank #2,779
20212021: 59 births, rank #2,848
2022: 68 births, rank #2,579
2023: 78 births, rank #2,336
2024: 115 births, rank #1,753
20252025: 79 births, rank #2,298

Jennie moved from #829 to #920 for girls between 1996 and 1997. Its highest annual birth count came in 1917, with 3,109 births.