Given name & surname
Yenny
“one who is desired”
Yenny is a variant of Yen. One Chinese interpretation is “one who is desired.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Yenny is a variant of Yen. One Chinese interpretation is “one who is desired.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Yenny is a variant of Yen. An origin associated with Yen is Chinese.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1980. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Yenny through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 245
- 0 boys · 245 girls
- Most popular year
- 2001
- 15 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 6 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 15 in 2001. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 2,800 as a first name in 2020; 163 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Yenny
- Yenny ÁlvarezColombian weightlifterborn 1995
- Yenny AcuñaChilean footballerborn 1997
- Yenny RachmanIndonesian actressborn 1959
- Lorena ColmenaresColombian cyclistborn 1991
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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