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Jenny (given name)

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Pronunciation
  
/ˈdʒɛni/

Gender
  
Female

Related names
  
Jenni, Jane, Jennifer, Genevieve, Jen, Jenna

Jenny was originally the diminutive form of Jane but is now associated with Jennifer.

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It may also be spelled Jennie, which was the most common spelling before the 20th century.

People with the given name

  • Jenny Agutter (born 1952), English actress
  • Jenny Berggren (born 1972), Swedish singer
  • Jennie Bimson (born 1976), English field hockey player
  • Jennie Bond (born 1950), English journalist
  • Jenny Buckley (born 1979), Irish television presenter
  • Jennie Breeden, American comic book artist
  • Jennie Churchill (1854–1921), British-American socialite
  • 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, inspired roles in The Beggar's Opera (1728), The Threepenny Opera (1928), The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Volume III: Century
  • Jenny Frost (born 1978), British singer and television presenter
  • Jenny Gal (born 1969), Dutch-Italian judoka
  • Jennie Garth (born 1972), American actress
  • Jenny Hiloudaki, Greek model and TV personality
  • Jenny Karezi (1932–1992), Greek film and stage actress
  • 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 Mastoraki, Greek poet and translator
  • Jenny McCarthy (born 1972), American model, comedian, actress, author and screenwriter
  • Jenny McCudden, Irish journalist
  • Jenny Nimmo (born 1944), British fantasy author
  • Jenny Pavley (born 1976), American beach volleyball player
  • 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 Vanou, Greek singer
  • Jenny von Westphalen (1814–1881), German woman, 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 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 Flint, part of a trio who occasionally helps the Doctor in Doctor Who
  • 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 Reilly, in The Black Donnellys
  • Jenny Shepard, in the television series NCIS
  • Jenny Skoutari, the protagonist in the film Jenny Jenny by Dinos Dimopoulos
  • Jenny Szalinski, from 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 2003 film Big Fish and the 1998 novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
  • Jenny, from the Wayside School books and cartoon
  • Jenny, from the short story "Don't Look At It! Don't Touch It!"
  • Jenny, main female character in Larry Clark's film Kids
  • 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

    • References

    Jenny (given name) Wikipedia
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