Jenny

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish

Origin and Meaning

1) English pet form of Jane ^[1]

2) English short form of Jennifer

3) Variant form of Jenni ^[1]

Related Names

Jennie	♀
Jenny	♀
Jenný	♀

See also Jenni

Name Days

Norway

26 June

Finland (Swedish Language)

21 July

Sweden

6 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Sweden: 1767 ^[1]

Namesakes

Jenny (Johanna Maria) Lind (6 October 1820 – 2 November 1887), Swedish opera singer

Jenny Eugenia Nyström (1854 - 1946), Swedish painter and illustrator

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[2]		30799	47317	2	4
Norway[3]		3165	6406	0	0
Denmark[4]		2658	n.a.	0	n.a
Finland[5]		n.a.	16015	n.a	4
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

Recent statistics trend^[2][4][3][5]:

Norwegian historic statistics trend^[3]:

Sources: ^{[2] [4] [3] [5]}

References

1. ↑ Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
2. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
3. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
4. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
5. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi