Meaning not yet researched.
Penn: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,869 in 2014.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,869 in 2014; #2,706 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Penn in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,706 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2014, at #1,869.
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Penn: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,869 in 2014 · most boys in one year: 79 (2014).
In 2025, 48 US boys were named Penn, making it the 2,706th most common boys’ name of the year, up 284 places from #2,990 in 2024. That is 6 more than the 42 boys named Penn in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,869, reached in 2014. That year also had the most boys given the name: 79. For comparison, it was #2,344 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Penn in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1915 with 7 babies. In all, 1,230 US babies have been given the name, 1.8% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 554 babies named Penn.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 591 US boys were named Penn; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 73. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,585 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Penn ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,422 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Penne, Pene and Pine are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Penne (485), Pene (5), Pine (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Penn in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 49 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,422 | — |
| Texas | 6 | #2,492 | #2,645 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 48 | #2,706 |
| 2024 | — | — | 42 | #2,990 |
| 2023 | — | — | 69 | #2,121 |
| 2022 | — | — | 54 | #2,551 |
| 2021 | — | — | 64 | #2,215 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,134 | 73 | #1,973 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,399 | 67 | #2,145 |
| 2018 | — | — | 49 | #2,606 |
| 2017 | — | — | 61 | #2,211 |
| 2016 | — | — | 64 | #2,159 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,693 | 56 | #2,344 |
| 2014 | — | — | 79 | #1,869 |
| 2013 | — | — | 53 | #2,389 |
| 2012 | — | — | 46 | #2,666 |
| 2011 | — | — | 34 | #3,288 |
| 2010 | — | — | 30 | #3,607 |
| 2009 | — | — | 32 | #3,457 |
| 2008 | — | — | 22 | #4,501 |
| 2007 | — | — | 14 | #6,182 |
| 2006 | — | — | 10 | #7,858 |
| 2005 | — | — | 10 | #7,517 |
| 2004 | — | — | 7 | #9,680 |
| 2003 | — | — | 8 | #8,430 |
| 2001 | — | — | 9 | #7,361 |
| 2000 | — | — | 7 | #8,888 |
| 1999 | — | — | 6 | #9,573 |
| 1998 | — | — | 6 | #9,333 |
| 1997 | — | — | 5 | #10,395 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #7,200 |
| 1989 | — | — | 8 | #6,073 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,928 |
| 1986 | — | — | 7 | #5,766 |
| 1985 | — | — | 5 | #7,311 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #6,032 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,079 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,677 |
| 1970 | — | — | 5 | #5,253 |
| 1969 | — | — | 7 | #3,843 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,524 |
| 1961 | — | — | 5 | #4,503 |
| 1959 | — | — | 8 | #3,221 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,477 |
| 1955 | — | — | 5 | #4,252 |
| 1954 | — | — | 7 | #3,385 |
| 1953 | — | — | 5 | #4,213 |
| 1952 | — | — | 6 | #3,641 |
| 1949 | — | — | 7 | #3,225 |
| 1947 | — | — | 6 | #3,654 |
| 1946 | — | — | 7 | #3,111 |
| 1945 | — | — | 5 | #3,658 |
| 1938 | — | — | 6 | #3,440 |
| 1930 | — | — | 5 | #4,416 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,676 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,231 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,807 |
| 1920 | — | — | 5 | #4,808 |
| 1917 | — | — | 6 | #3,876 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,317 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).