Jennie

Where Jennie comes from

The dictionaries list Jennie as a given name — a female given name, variant of Jenny — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1880
    First SSA year, and the peak
    #24 among girls with 793 babies — the first year on record, and still its best.
  2. 1972
    Jennie Garth born
    American actress
  3. 1990
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #586.
  4. 1996
    Jennie born
    South Korean singer-songwriter and rapper
In the dictionary
  • A female given name, variant of Jenny.
Namesakes
  • Jennie · South Korean singer-songwriter and rapper, born 1996
  • Jennie Garth · American actress, born 1972
  • Jennie Johansson · Swedish swimmer, born 1988
  • Jennie Finch · American softball player, born 1980
  • Jennie Fletcher · British swimmer, Olympic gold medallist, former world record-holder, 1890–1968

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.