Jinny

Diminutive of Virginia, Ginevra, Genevieve, or Imogen

"virgin, pure; white wave; maiden"

Jinny Origin and Meaning

Variation of Ginny

Famous People Named Jinny

• Jinny Jacinto Canadian Cirque du Soleil contortionist

The name Jinny in Pop Culture

• Jinny one of the characters whose interior monologue makes up Virginia Woolf's novel The Waves (1931)
• Jinny Austin jealous central character ("I want to be Brunhilde, and I'm only Frou,Frou!") in Clyde Fitch's 1905 play The Girl With the Green Eyes
• In England this is an old,fashioned nickname for Jennifer, particularly in the West Country where it was very popular in the 18th and 19th centuries