Pennie

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Pennie: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Pennie: Recorded since 1997, it reached #355 in 2017, and it stood at #885 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
26times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#355highest recorded position
7groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#3174
1999	#3900
2009	#4564
2010	#4688
2011	#3549
2012	#4838
2013	#3160
2014	#2058
2015	#2496
2016	#3214
2017	#2502
2018	#1977
2019	#1497
2020	#2843
2021	#2499
2022	#4645
2023	#1640
2024	#3015

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 18 of the 28 years from 1997 to 2024.

In 2022: #905 among girls in Republic of Ireland, #4645 among girls in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1997–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1997
First recorded at #3174 among girls in England and Wales in 1997 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded2015–2017
Highest recorded position: #355 among girls in Northern Ireland, in 2017 (recorded 2015–2017).
Northern Ireland · Girls
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #885 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Girls

Pennie appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 18 years beginning in 1997, and has registered 154 births with the name.

Pennie across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Pennie's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#3174 (1997)	#1497 (2019)	#3015 (2024)	18 of 28	154 (1997–2024)	20 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#419 (2016)	#419 (2016)	#885 (2025)	6 of 10	28 (2016–2025)	10 (2016)
Northern Ireland · Girls	#426 (2015)	#355 (2017)	#355 (2017)	2 of 3	7 (2015–2017)	4 (2017)

Pennie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Pennie in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	7	2 of 10	4
2000s	4	1 of 10	4
2010sbusiest	95	10 of 10	10
2020s	48	5 of 10	10

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 10 births a year.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Pennie appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #355 in Northern Ireland in 2017.

Pennie's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#3015	8	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1640	18	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#4645	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#2499	10	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#2843	8	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1497	20	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1977	14	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#2502	10	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#3214	7	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#2496	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#2058	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#3160	7	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#4838	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#3549	6	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#4688	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#4564	4	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#3174	4	High	Verified
2017	Northern Ireland	female	#355	4	High	Verified
2015	Northern Ireland	female	#426	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	female	#885	3	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	female	#905	3	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	female	#871	3	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	female	#734	4	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	female	#651	5	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	female	#419	10	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1997 and 2025, ranked in 19 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #355, first reached in 2017.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 20 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2015, and 19 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Peony · #1505, 19y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Adah · #355, 20y
Khaleesi · #355, 14y
Lilyanna · #355, 22y
Sophia-Rose · #355, 18y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Akram · #355, 30y
Alia · #355, 30y
Harleigh · #355, 29y
Jess · #355, 31y

Pennie was ranked #355 in Northern Ireland · Girls in 2017. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Pennie and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Pennie without appearing here.

Pennie moved ahead of

Kirsten Compare
In 2018 they stood at #1977 and #1977 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2019 that had become #1497 and #5591.
Tracy Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4645 and #3970 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #1640 and #5687.
Helene Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4838 and #3285 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2058 and #5691.
Rian Compare
In 2013 they stood at #4838 and #4838 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #2058 and #5691.

Moved ahead of Pennie

Noah Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1640 and #3218 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #3015 and #1743.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2058 and #2203 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #2496 and #1240.
Amalie Compare
In 1998 they stood at #3174 and #3824 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1999 that had become #3900 and #2770.
Rory Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1497 and #4001 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2020 that had become #2843 and #1939.

Moved the opposite way to Pennie

Kristin Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Pennie went from #3174 to #1640 while Kristin went from #1176 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Pennie went from #3174 to #1640 while Therese went from #3174 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1997 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Pennie went from #3174 to #1640 while Tracey went from #1450 to #5687.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1997 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #355 in Northern Ireland in 2017. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Pennie

Pennie at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Pennie across 3 official records

Pennie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Pennie appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Pennie

Pennie and the names beside it

Pennie moved ahead of

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Pennie at a glance

Pennie across 3 official records

Pennie by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Pennie appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Pennie

Pennie and the names beside it

Pennie moved ahead of

Moved ahead of Pennie

Moved the opposite way to Pennie