Jenny (given name)
| Pronunciation | /ˈdʒɛni/ |
|---|---|
| Gender | Female |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Jenni, Jane, Jennifer, Genevieve, Jen, Jenna, Virginia |
Jenny was originally the diminutive form of Jane,[1] but it is now associated with Jennifer.[2]
It may also be spelled Jennie, which was the most common spelling before the 20th century.[3]
People with the given name
- Jenny Agutter (born 1952), English actress
- Jenny-Wanda Barkmann (c. 1922–1946), German concentration camp guard executed for war crimes
- Jenny Berggren (born 1972), Swedish singer
- Jenny Berrigan (born 1983), American snowboarder
- Jenny Berthelius (born 1923), Swedish crime novelist and children's writer
- Jennie Bimson (born 1976), English field hockey player
- Jenny Body, British aerospace engineer
- Jennie Bond (born 1950), English journalist
- Jenny Buckley (born 1979), Irish television presenter
- Jennie Breeden, American comic book artist
- Jenny Campbell (artist) (1895–1970), New Zealand artist
- Jennie Carignan, Canadian general
- Jennie Casseday (1840–1893), American philanthropist
- Jennie Chen (1906–1971), second wife of Chiang Kai-shek
- Jennie Churchill (1854–1921), British-American socialite
- Jennie Collins (1828-1887), American labor reformer, humanitarian, and suffragist
- Jenny Collins, a character in the American Gothic soap opera Dark Shadows
- Jenny Craig (entrepreneur) (born 1932), American weight-loss guru
- Jenny Crain (born 1968), American long-distance runner
- Jenny Diver (née Mary Young, c.1700–1741), British pickpocket,
- Jenny Frost (born 1978), British singer and television presenter
- Jenny Gal (born 1969), Dutch-Italian judoka
- Jennie Garth (born 1972), American actress
- Jenny Gusyk (1897–1944), Turkish-Jewish woman enrolled as the first female and foreign student at the University of Cologne
- Jenny Han (born 1980), Korean-American author of young adult fiction and children's fiction
- Jenny Hiloudaki, Greek model and TV personality
- Jenny Hval, Norwegian musician, writer, filmmaker, and artist
- Jenny Karezi (1932–1992), Greek film and stage actress
- Jennie Kim (born 1996), South Korean singer and member of Blackpink
- Jenny Lee (born 1996), South Korean singer and member of DIA
- Jenny Lewis, (born 1976), American singer
- Jenny Likens (1950–2004), American child abuse witness, sister of Sylvia Likens
- Jenny Lind, (1820–1887), Swedish soprano
- Jennifer Lopez (born 1969), American singer and actress
- Jenny Marcroft (born 1963) New Zealand politician
- Jenny Mastoraki, Greek poet and translator
- Jenny McCarthy (born 1972), American model, comedian, actress, author and screenwriter
- Jenny McCudden, Irish journalist
- Jennie de la Montagnie Lozier (1841–1915), American physician
- Jenny Nimmo (born 1944), British fantasy author
- Jenny Ohlsson, Swedish ambassador
- Jenny Pavley (born 1976), American beach volleyball player
- Jenny Pike (1922–2004), Canadian photographer and servicewoman
- Jenny Powell (born 1968), British television presenter
- Jenny Shepherd (born 1972), New Zealand field hockey player
- Jenny Sjödin (born 1985), Swedish professional wrestler and submission grappler
- Jenny Slate (born 1982), American comedian, actress, voice actress and author
- Jenny Tonge, Baroness Tonge, (born 1941), British politician
- Jenny Vanou, Greek singer
- Jenny von Westphalen (1814–1881), German political activist, theater critic, wife of Karl Marx
- Jenny Whittle (born 1973), Australian basketball player
- Jenny Wolf (born 1979), German speed skater
Fictional characters
- Jenny (Doctor Who), in the 2008 Doctor Who episode "The Doctor's Daughter"
- Jenny Flint, part of a trio who occasionally helps the Doctor in Doctor Who
- Jenny in the Wayside School books and cartoon
- Jenny, main female character in Larry Clark's film Kids
- Jenny Ballinger, A character in the TV sitcom The Ropers
- Jenny Cavalleri, female protagonist in Love Story
- Jenny Curran, love interest of the protagonist in the film Forrest Gump
- Jenny Everywhere, open-source comic character
- Jenny Foxworth in the film Oliver & Company
- Jenny Humphrey in Gossip Girl and It Girl
- Jenny Kelly, best friend of Sabrina the Teenage Witch during season 1
- Jenny McBride, a mouse from The Secret of NIMH 2: Timmy to the Rescue
- Jenny Pizza in Steven Universe
- Jenny Reilly in The Black Donnellys
- Jenny Schecter, a main character from The L Word
- Jenny Shepard in the television series NCIS
- Jenny Scott in the 1991 thriller Shattered
- Jenny Skoutari, the protagonist in the film Jenny Jenny by Dinos Dimopoulos
- Jenny Sparks and Jenny Quantum in The Authority comic books
- Jenny Szalinski in Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves'
- Jenny Wakeman in the Nickelodeon cartoon My Life as a Teenage Robot
- 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)
- First Mate Jenny, Aldebaran pilot of the Righteous Indignation in the 1980s comic (and later cartoon) series Bucky O'Hare
- Low-Dive Jenny/Ginny Jenny in The Threepenny Opera, based on Jenny Diver
- Officer Jenny, the name of the many police officers in Pokémon
- Jenny in The Muppets Take Manhattan
References
- ^ Withycombe, E. G. (1970). The Concise Dictionary of English Christian Names (third ed.). Omega Books.
- ^ "Meaning, Origin, and History of the name Jenny". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
- ^ "Meaning, Origin, and History of the name Jennie". Behind the Name. Retrieved 2 December 2010.
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