Penney
Penney is a girl's name that peaked in 1962, when it was the 1,008th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2018. About 1,600 Penneys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 63.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Penney
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,951
- Estimated living today
- 1,600
- Median age today
- 63
- Peak year
- 1962
- Best rank
- 1,008th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1925
How old the living Penneys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,951 babies given the name since 1925, about 1,600 are alive — 83 in every hundred. Roughly 30 of them are children and 660 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1962 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Penney is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Penney is most concentrated in Michigan (4.1×), New York (3.1×), Tennessee (3.0×), California (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1962
The most popular girls’ names the year Penney peaked:
Related names
Penney against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.