Jenny (given name)

Jenny
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, which means "God is gracious", but it is now associated with Jennifer, which means "the fair one". It may also be spelt Jennie, which was the most common spelling before the 20th century.

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
Jennie Bergius Eriksson (born 1981), Swedish politician
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.

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[1] Withycombe, E. G. (1970). The Concise Dictionary of English Christian Names (third ed.). Omega Books.

[2] Duddy, Nicole; Abner, Rhayn. "Jane". The Bump.

[BtNJenny-3] "Meaning, Origin, and History of the name Jenny". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2 December 2010.

[4] Roelofs, Keshia; Bagg, Emily. "Jennifer". The Bump.

[BtNJennie-5] "Meaning, Origin, and History of the name Jennie". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2 December 2010.