Pennie
A girls’ name of Greek origin, meaning weaver; a diminutive of penelope.
Pennie by the numbers
In 2025, 9 babies in England and Wales were named Pennie. In the US, 9 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given several times more often in England and Wales than in the US.
Its American peak was 258 babies in 1963, so it is a 1960s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Pennie. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Pennivariant of Penny; from Penelope or penny coin5 in the US (2017)
- Pennyweaver; from penelope201 in England and Wales (2025)
- Penielface of God9 in England and Wales (2025)
- Penneyenclosed meadow; a form of Penny8 in the US (2017)
- Peggievariant of Peggy; pearl5 in England and Wales (2025)
- Perrie9 in England and Wales (2025)
Other names that mean a craft or trade
Like Pennie, each of these has a craft or trade in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Ameliawork, industriousness2,153 in England and Wales (2025)
- Penelopeweaver; wife of Odysseus1,174 in England and Wales (2025)
- Skylarscholar, learned one; a modern respelling of Schuyler4,984 in the US (2017)
- Chaseto hunt; one who hunts4,207 in the US (2017)
- Baileybailiff or steward of a castle2,561 in the US (2017)
- Remingtonraven settlement; from the raven farm2,251 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Pennie
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