What does the name Penny mean.

Baby name meanings penny. Penny as a girls name is pronounced PEN-nee. 12 rows Penny is a pet form of the feminine name Penelope which has become a name in its own. Penelope in turn is a Greek name Πηνελοπη most likely derived from pēnē meaning weft a piece of woven cloth combined with lepō meaning peel in other words unweave a piece of woven cloth.

Click the name to view its details. From Middle English peni peny penny applied as a nickname possibly for a person of some substance or for a tenant who paid a rent of one penny. The meaning origin and history of the given name Penny.

Silent worker from penelope meaning. What does Penny mean. Origin of the name Penny.

In American Baby Names the meaning of the name Penny is. Short form of Penelope Greek weaver also used as an independent name mostly in the 20th century. Penny is generally used as a girls name.

This was the common Germanic unit of value when money was still an unusual phenomenon. The meaning of the name Penny is. It fell out of favor and the Top 1000 for a while but has recently rebounded by reentering the charts in 2013.

On the last available year for each country we count 0 birth. Between 1944 and 2019 there were 2 births of Penny-jane in the countries below which represents an average of 0 birth of children bearing the first name Penny-jane per year on average throughout this period. Family name origins meanings English also present in Ireland.