Jennie
given name · Latin script
Meaning: diminutive of Jane/Jenny; "God is gracious" (Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…)
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 39 countries · latest register: SSA, 2025
Jennie is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country. In Sweden it is the 15th most common given name. Jennie is also written ג'ני in Hebrew, 제니 in Korean (Hangul) and Джени in Cyrillic.
- NLNetherlands1 in 13K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 216as Jenny
- ECEcuador1 in 311as Jenny
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Jennie itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- #500 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 579 (measured from records)
- 1 in 13K (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 named Jenny, est.
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Jennie in other scripts: Latin, Hebrew, Korean (Hangul) and 1 more
(measured from records)Locally spelled Jenny in US United States, PH Philippines, DE Germany and 5 more and Jeny in CO Colombia.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)diminutive of Jane/Jenny; "God is gracious"
Cited for this meaning 1
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Attested across 26 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Jennie, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Jennie counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | #103 | ≈170,000 est. | ≈1 in 672 | — | Jenny | 161 |
| US United States | #251 | 111,784as Jenny | 1 in 3K | 111K | Jenny | 579 |
| DE Germany | #279 | ≈77,000 est. | ≈1 in 1.1K | listed | Jenny | 238 |
| CO Colombia | — | ≈72,000 est. | ≈1 in 731 | 47 | Jeny | 50 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 54,391as Jenny | 1 in 311 | 54K | Jenny | 56 |
| SE Sweden | #15 | 47,334as Jenny | 1 in 216 | 47K | Jenny | 146 |
| FI Finland | — | 17,937as Jenni | 1 in 311 | 20K | Jenny | 65 |
| HK Hong Kong | #61 | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 562 | — | Jenny | 85 |
| NL Netherlands | #303 | 1,377 | 1 in 13K | 4.6K | Jenny | 95 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); the co-datosgov-candidates register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Jennie is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A diminutive of the female given names Jane and Jennifer, also used as a formal given name.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, a female given name, variant of Jenny
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Jennie Fletcherb. 1890GBBritish swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder
- Jennie Garthb. 1972USAmerican actress
- Jennie Kimb. 1996KRSouth Korean singer-songwriter and rapper (born 1996)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)68 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 39 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Jennie mean, and where does it come from?
- diminutive of Jane/Jenny; "God is gracious" Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Jennie?
- In the etymology graph, Jennifer, Janet and Janice are forms of the same name in other languages; Jenelle, Janetta and Jenessa are recorded short or pet forms; it is recorded as a short form of Jean and Jane.
- Is Jennie a male or female name?
- Jennie is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Norway (SSB), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Finland (DVV), among others.
- Which countries have the most people named Jennie?
- Mondonomo estimates about 172 thousand people named Jenny in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold. After it come United States, Germany, Colombia and Ecuador; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Jennie most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Jennie is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 13 thousand people — even though Philippines holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Jennie?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 1,377 people named Jennie, about 1 in 13 thousand residents.
- How common is Jennie compared with other names?
- In the Philippines, Jennie is the 103rd most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Jennie?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/jennieThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Jennie” — the 103rd most common given name in the Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.