Jenny
21
Babies in 2024
-36%
10-year change
1996
Peak · 147
+17%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Jenny
Jenny peaked among UK girls' names in the late 1990s (147 babies in 1996) and has remained in active use — 21 girls were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Jenny reached its peak in 1996, when 147 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #256 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 21 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,486 girls have been officially registered with the name Jenny in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 247 girls were registered with the name, starting from 33 in 2014 and ending at 21 in 2024.