Penny
251
Babies in 2024
-3%
10-year change
2016
Peak · 305
-2%
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 Penny
Penny appears in the official UK girls' name list for 2024, ranked #193 with 251 girls registered in England & Wales.
Penny reached its peak in 2016, when 305 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #178 for UK girls that year. Today's count of 251 represents 82% of the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 4,394 girls have been officially registered with the name Penny in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 3,085 girls were registered with the name, starting from 259 in 2014 and ending at 251 in 2024.