Jenny (given name)
| Pronunciation | /ˈdʒɛni/ |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Origin | |
| Meaning | "God is gracious" (Jane) or "Fair one" (Jennifer) |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Jenni, Jane, Jennifer, Jen, Jenna |
Jenny is a female given name. The name was originally the diminutive form of Jane,[1] which means "God is gracious",[2] but it is now associated with Jennifer,[3] which means "the fair one".[4] It may also be spelt Jennie, which was the most common spelling before the 20th century.[5]
People with the given name
- Jenny Agutter (born 1952), English actress
- Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (1922–1946), German concentration camp guard
- Jenny Beavan (born 1950), English costume designer
- Jenny Berggren (born 1972), Swedish singer
- Jenny Berrigan (born 1983), American snowboarder
- Jenny Berthelius (1923–2019), Swedish crime novelist and children's writer
- Jennie Bimson (born 1976), English field hockey player
- Jennie M. Bingham (1859–1933), American author and littérateur
- Jenny Blanco (born 1985), Dominican model
- Jenny Body, British aerospace engineer
- Jennie Bond (born 1950), English journalist
- Jenny Boucek (born 1973), American basketball coach and player
- Jenny Bruso, American hiker, influencer, and activist
- Jenny Buckley (born 1979), Irish actress and television presenter
- Jenny Campbell (artist) (1895–1970), Scottish artist
- Jennie Carignan (born 1968), Canadian lieutenant-general
- Jennie Casseday (1840–1893), American philanthropist
- Jennie Churchill (1854–1921), American-born British socialite
- Jennie Thornley Clarke (1860–1924), American educator, writer, and anthologist
- Jennie Collins (1828–1887), American labor reformer, humanitarian, and suffragist
- Jennie Maria Drinkwater Conklin (1841–1900), American author and social activist
- Jenny Craig (entrepreneur) (born 1932), American businesswoman
- Jenny Crain (born 1968), American long-distance runner
- Jenny Curtsdotter (born 1976), Swedish footballer
- Jenny Danielsson (born 1994), Finnish footballer
- Jenny Diver (c. 1700–1741), Irish pickpocket
- Jenny af Forselles (1869–1938), Finnish teacher and politician
- Jenny Frost (born 1978), English singer and television presenter
- Jenny Gal (born 1969), Dutch-Italian judoka
- Jennie Garth (born 1972), American actress
- Jenny Gusyk (1897–1944), Turkish woman, first female foreign student at the University of Cologne
- Jenny Han (born 1980), Korean-American writer
- Jennie Hanna (1856–1924), American missionary worker and religious auxiliary founder
- Jenny Hiloudaki (born 1968), Greek DJ, book author and former brothel madam
- Jenny Hjohlman (born 1990), Swedish footballer
- Jennie Florella Holmes (1842–1892), American suffragist and temperance activist
- Jenny Hval (born 1980), Norwegian singer-songwriter, record producer, and novelist
- Jenny Johansson (born 1977), Swedish orienteering competitor
- Jennie Joseph, midwife and activist
- Jenny Karezi (1932–1992), Greek film and stage actress
- Jennie Murray Kemp (1858–1928), American temperance activist
- Jenny Kenney (1884–1961), British suffragette and Montessori teacher
- Jenny Kim (born 1994), South Korean model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Jennie (singer) (born 1996), South Korean singer, member of girl group Blackpink
- Jenny Lau (born 1985), British writer and community organiser
- Jenny Lewis (born 1976), American singer-songwriter, musician, and actress
- Jenny Lind (1820–1887), Swedish opera singer
- Jennifer Lopez (born 1969), American singer, dancer and actress
- Jennie Lozier (1841–1915), American physician
- Jenny Marcroft (born 1963), New Zealand politician
- Jenny Markelin-Svensson (1882–1929), Finnish professional inspector and engineer
- Jenny Mastoraki (born 1949), Greek poet and translator
- Jenny McCarthy (born 1972), American actress, model, and television personality
- Jenny McCudden, Irish journalist, newspaper editor, author and television producer
- Jenny B. Merrill (1854–1934), American early childhood educator and author
- Jenny Nicholson, American video essayist
- Jenny Nimmo (born 1944), British fantasy author
- Jenny Nyström (1854–1946), Swedish painter and illustrator
- Jenny Nyström (badminton) (born 1994), Finnish badminton player
- Jenny Ohlsson (born 1975), Swedish diplomat
- Jenny Pandos (disappeared 1987), American missing person
- Jenny Pat (1981–2014), Hong Kong-born, Chinese-Canadian international artist and television personality
- Jenny Pavley (born 1976), American beach volleyball player
- Jenny Pike (1922–2004), Canadian photographer and servicewoman
- Jenny Lind Porter (1927–2020), American poet and teacher
- Jennie O'Neill Potter (1867–1900), American actor and dramatic reader
- Jenny Powell (born 1968), English television and radio presenter
- Jenny Ramp (born 2003), Filipino-American model and beauty pageant titleholder
- Jenny Rautionaho (born 1996), Finnish ski jumper
- Jenny Shepherd (born 1972), New Zealand field hockey player
- Jennie Hart Sibley (1846–1917), American temperance leader
- Jenny Sjödin (born 1985), Swedish professional wrestler and submission grappler
- Jenny Slate (born 1982), American actress, stand-up comedian, and writer
- Jennie Somogyi (born c. 1977), American ballet dancer
- Jennie O. Starkey (c. 1856–1918), American journalist and newspaper editor
- Jenny Tan (born 1981), Indonesian television presenter
- Jennie Lasby Tessmann (1882–1959), American spectroscopist and college educator
- Jenny Tonge, Baroness Tonge (born 1941), British politician
- Jenny Upari (1882–1948), Finnish politician
- Jenny Vanou (1939–2014), Greek singer
- Jenny Walser (born 1995), English actress
- Jennie Wernäng (born 1985), Swedish politician
- Jenny von Westphalen (1814–1881), German theatre critic and political activist
- Jenny Whittle (born 1973), Australian basketball player
- Jenny Wolf (born 1979), German speed skater
- Jenny Yokobori (born 1997), American voice actress
Fictional characters
- Jenny, a character in the cartoon My Pet Monster
- Jenny, a character in the 1984 American musical comedy movie The Muppets Take Manhattan
- Jenny, a character in the 2001 American independent comedy-drama movie Little Secrets
- Jenny, in the 2008 Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter"
- Jenny, a character from the hybrid live-action/animated series Wild Kratts
- Jenny Flint, part of a trio who occasionally helps the Doctor in Doctor Who
- Jenny, a character in the 2022 American-Canadian holiday film Christmas in Rockwell
- Jenny in the Wayside School books and cartoon
- Jenny, the main female character in Larry Clark's 1995 film Kids
- Jenny Ballinger, a character in the TV sitcom The Ropers
- Jenny Bradley, a character in the British soap opera Coronation Street
- Jenny Cavalleri, female protagonist in Love Story
- Jenny Curran, a character in the 1994 film Forrest Gump
- Jenny Everywhere, open-source comic character
- Jenny Foxworth, a child character in the 1988 Disney film Oliver & Company
- Jenny Grogan, in Marley & Me, played by Jennifer Aniston
- Jenny Hayden, a character in the 1984 American science fiction romance movie Starman
- Jenny Helmandollar, a character from Louds
- Jenny Humphrey, a character in Gossip Girl and It Girl
- Jenny, a character in the 2005 South Korean romance film Jenny, Juno
- Jenny Jenkins, a character from the comic strip and novel Big Nate.
- Jenny Kelly, a character in the 1996 series Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996 TV series)
- Jenny Lerner, a character in the 1998 American science-fiction disaster movie Deep Impact
- Jennie Lowell, a character in the American sitcom Kate & Allie
- Jenny McBride, a mouse from The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue
- Jenny Pizza, a character in the animated series Steven Universe
- Jenny Reilly, a character in the series The Black Donnellys
- Jenny Romano, a character from The Darkness
- Jenny Schecter, a main character from The L Word
- Jenny Scott in the 1991 thriller Shattered
- Jenny Shepard in the television series NCIS
- Jennie "Jeni" Sicat, a character from the 2026 Philippine musical drama Born to Shine
- Jenny Skoutari, the protagonist in the film Jenny Jenny
- Jenny Sparks and Jenny Quantum in The Authority comic books
- Jenny Szalinski in the 1997 American film Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
- Jenny Wakeman in the Nickelodeon cartoon My Life as a Teenage Robot
- Jenny Wilcox, a character in the 1991 American science fiction action comedy movie Suburban Commando
- Jenny Wolek in the soap opera One Life to Live
- Jenny The Witch in the film Big Fish (2003) and the novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions (1998)
- Jenny Woodentop, a character from the 1950s children TV series The Woodentops
- First Mate Jenny, character in the 1980s comic series Bucky O'Hare
- Low-Dive Jenny/Ginny Jenny, in The Threepenny Opera
- Officer Jenny, the name of the many police officers in Pokémon
- Jenny, the Tagalog dub name for Keiko (Kayko) Yukimura (see list of YuYu Hakusho characters), a character in YuYu Hakusho (known in the Philippines as Ghost Fighter)
References
- ↑ Withycombe, E. G. (1970). The Concise Dictionary of English Christian Names (third ed.). Omega Books.
- ↑ Duddy, Nicole; Abner, Rhayn. "Jane". The Bump.
- ↑ "Meaning, Origin, and History of the name Jenny". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
- ↑ Roelofs, Keshia; Bagg, Emily. "Jennifer". The Bump.
- ↑ "Meaning, Origin, and History of the name Jennie". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2 December 2010.