Penny

Where Penny comes from

From Pen(elope) + -y.
— Wiktionary's entry for Penny
  • 2 syllables
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1882
    First appearance
    #908 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1943
    Penny Marshall born
    American actress, director and producer
  3. 1963
    Peak, #86
    5,129 babies named Penny — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1969
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #142.
  5. 1973
    Penny Mordaunt born
    British politician
In the dictionary
  • A diminutive of the female given name Penelope.
Namesakes
  • Penny Marshall · American actress, director and producer, 1943–2018
  • Penny Mordaunt · British politician, born 1973
  • Penny Hardaway · American basketball player and coach, born 1971
  • Penny Johnson Jerald · American actress, born 1961
  • Penny Oleksiak · Canadian swimmer, born 2000

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.