Jenny

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Female Name

Usage

Swedish
Finnish
Norwegian
Danish
Greenlandic
Icelandic

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Origin and Meaning

1) English pet form of Jane

2) English short form of Jennifer

3) Variant form of Jenni

4) English pet form of Jean (see Jeanne)

Related Names

Jennie	♀
Jenny	♀
Jenný	♀
Jhennie	♀
Jhenny	♀

See also Jenni, Jennika

Matronyms [What's That?]

Male

Jennyjarson

Female

Jennyjardóttir

Grammar

- Danish
Nominative:	Jenny
Genitive:	Jennys

- Finnish
Nominative:	Jenny
Genitive:	Jennyn
Partitive:	Jennyä

- Icelandic
Nominative:	Jenny
Accusative:	Jenny
Dative:	Jenny
Genitive:	Jennyjar

- Norwegian
Nominative:	Jenny
Genitive:	Jennys

- Swedish
Nominative:	Jenny
Genitive:	Jennys

Name Days

Norway

26 June

Finland (Swedish Language)

21 July

Sweden

6 October

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

• Norway: ca 1750
• Sweden: 1767
• Denmark: 19th century
• Iceland: Officially approved as a given name on 21 May 2014

Strongest Period of Usage

• Sweden:
  • -1909
  • 1970-
  • 1970-1989
• Norway:
  • early 20th century
  • 1990-
• Denmark:
  • -1910
  • -1940

Predominant Regional Usage

• Norway:
  • Vestlandet
  • Troms
  • Sogn og Fjordane
• Denmark:
  • Vestjylland (earlier)
  • Nordjylland (earlier)
  • København (late 20th century)
  • Sjælland (late 20th century)
  • Østjylland (late 20th century)
  • Sønderjylland (late 20th century)
  • Vestjylland (late 20th century)
• Sweden:
  • Öland (19th century) see map
  • Småland (19th century) see map
  • Östergötland (19th century) see map
  • Halland (19th century) see map
  • Närke (19th century) see map
  • Nordsverige

Namesakes

• Jenny (Johanna Maria) Lind (6 October 1820 – 2 November 1887), Swedish opera singer
• Jenny Eugenia Nyström-Stoopendaal (née Nyström, 13 June 1854 - 17 January 1946), Swedish painter and illustrator

Trivia

• Sweden: In January 1973, 19907 people were named Jenny (percentage of first or only given name: 81 %)

• Norway: "Jenny" is a novel by the Norwegian writer Sigrid Undset, published in 1911

Statistics

Name Count per Country (What's this?)

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Country	Commonness Commonness	Total		Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&	as main name#	also middle name&
Sweden		29983	47384	29979	47376	4	8
Finland		n.a.	16730	n.a.	16730	0	0
Denmark		1798	n.a.	1798	n.a.	0	n.a.
Greenland		18	72	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Iceland		16	54	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.	n.a.
Norway		7434	n.a.	7429	n.a.	5	n.a.
#: 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.

 

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Swedish Regional Distribution

Regional distribution of Jenny (f) in Sweden in the year 1880.