In 2025, 15 US girls were named Pennie, making it the 7,408th most common girls’ name of the year, up 2,675 places from #10,083 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 10 girls named Pennie in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #631, reached in 1963. That year also had the most girls given the name: 258. For comparison, it was #7,525 in 2015 and #926 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Pennie in 136 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 9 babies. In all, 5,814 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 1,849 babies named Pennie.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 91 US girls were named Pennie; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 15. In 2025 that was about 1 in 107,151 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Penny (101,003 babies since 1880), Penni (2,606 babies since 1880) and Penney (1,951 babies since 1880).