US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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NAMES LIKE PENNY

Same rise and fall as Penny, around the same years.

WHERE PENNY IS POPULAR · 2024

In 2024, Penny ranked highest in Utah (#346) and lowest in North Carolina (#2,609). 24 states had fewer than 5 babies with the name, too few to list.

TOP 1011–5051–200200+UNDER 5 BABIES

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Penny name popularity

Penny has been given to 101,003 babies in the United States since 1882.

It peaked in 1963, when 5,143 babies got the name, and its best rank was #163 in 1963.

In 2025, 368 babies were named Penny (#1,460 in the country), 93% below the peak. That is down 1% from 2015.

Almost every Penny is a girl.

An estimated 83K people named Penny are alive in the US today, with a median age of 63.

HOW IT WORKS

The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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