Jeanny
Jeanny is a given name. Notable people with the name include:Jeanny Canby (1929–2007), American archaeologist and scholar Jeanny Dom, Luxembourgian table tennis player Jeanny Marc, French National Assembly member Jeanny Yao, Canadian biochemist, technology entrepreneur and environmentalist; jointly identified a bacteria that breaks down phthalates and co-founded Novoloop
Meaning & Origin of Jeanny
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Jeanny is a given name. Notable people with the name include:Jeanny Canby (1929–2007), American archaeologist and scholar Jeanny Dom, Luxembourgian table tennis player Jeanny Marc, French National Assembly member Jeanny Yao, Canadian biochemist, technology entrepreneur and environmentalist; jointly identified a bacteria that breaks down phthalates and co-founded Novoloop
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The Story of Jeanny
The earliest SSA record of Jeanny as a baby girl name dates back to 1954, when 8 babies received it. 1976 was its biggest year on record, with 19 newborns named Jeanny — #3,539 in the national rankings. About 28% of every Jeanny on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Jeanny last appeared in the published SSA data in 2019, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 366 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1950s to the 2020s.
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About the name Jeanny
Jeanny is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1954 and has accumulated 366 births in the dataset. Jeanny's peak popularity came in 1976 when it ranked #3,539. Use the chart and map above to compare Jeanny's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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