How Many People Are Named Penney?
people named Penney are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 209,941 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,951 babies named Penney in Social Security records from 1925 to 2018, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
113 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Penney in the records were girls.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Penney alive today is about 62 years old, and 64% are 60 or older. Half of them were between 56 and 68 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Penney first appears in the records in 1925 and was given most often in 1962, to 113 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2018.
Babies given the name each year, 1925 to 2018
🏆 Rank History
Penney has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,013, in 1962.
| Girls | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | Not ranked |
| Best rank | #1,013 (1962) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #1,291 in the 1960s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Penney alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Penney were born in New York than in any other state: about 68 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Penney was given 3.4 times as often in Michigan, 2.7 times in New York and 2.2 times in California.
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