Pennington

An unconventional route to the nickname Penny. Pennington debuted on the charts for girls in 2015.

Pennington is more familiar as a surname. It is habitational, denoting ancestors from English towns named Pennington (most often Pennington, Cumbria). Penington is an alternate spelling of the surname, but has never been recorded as a given name.

Pronounced PEN-ing-tun.

As of October 2026, Pennington ranked #14691 in US births in 2020 SSA, peaked at #14150 in 2015.