Jennie

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Female Female Name

Usage

Sweden Swedish
Norway Norwegian
Denmark Danish
Finland Finnish

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Origin and Meaning

Variant form of Jenny [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]

Related Names

See Jenny

Grammar

Denmark - Danish
Nominative: Jennie
Genitive: Jennies
Finland - Finnish
Nominative: Jennie
Genitive: Jennien
Partitive: Jennietä
Norway - Norwegian
Nominative: Jennie
Genitive: Jennies
Sweden - Swedish
Nominative: Jennie
Genitive: Jennies

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

  • Sweden: 1856 (Skellefteå, Västerbotten) [6]

Strongest Period of Usage

Predominant Regional Usage

Trivia

  • Sweden: In January 1973, 780 people were named Jennie (percentage of first or only given name: 79 %) [7]

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 Sweden[8]
8706 11467 8706 11467 0 0
Denmark Denmark[9]
310
n.a.
310
n.a.
0
n.a.
Finland Finland[10]
n.a.
354
n.a.
354 0 0
Iceland Iceland[11]
1 2
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Greenland Greenland[12]
0 3
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
n.a.
Norway Norway[13]
380
n.a.
380
n.a.
n.a.
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.

 

Recent Statistics Trend

Name statistics for Jennie (f) Sources: [8][9][13][10]


References

  1. Roland Otterbjörk: Svenska förnamn (1979)
  2. Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
  3. 3.0 3.1 Eva Brylla: Förnamn i Sverige (2004)
  4. Eva Villarsen Meldgaard: Den store navnebog (2004)
  5. 5.0 5.1 Gulbrand Alhaug: 10 001 navn - Norsk fornavnleksikon (2011)
  6. Riksarkivet, Swedish National Archive, Census of 1870 https://riksarkivet.se/
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 7.4 Sture Allén/Staffan Wåhlin: Förnamnsboken (1979)
  8. 8.0 8.1 Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
  9. 9.0 9.1 Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
  10. 10.0 10.1 Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi
  11. Hagstofa Íslands, National statistics office of Iceland, http://www.hagstofan.is/
  12. Grønlands Statistik, Statistics office of Greenland, http://www.stat.gl/
  13. 13.0 13.1 Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no