Pennie

Where Pennie comes from

Pennie hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #634 among girls, 9 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1949
    Pennie Smith born
    English photographer
  3. 1963
    Peak, #631
    258 babies named Pennie — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1968
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #913.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Pennie Smith · English photographer, born 1949

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.