Jenny (given name)
| Jenny | |
|---|---|
| Pronunciation | /ˈdʒɛni/ |
| Gender | Female |
| Other names | |
| Related names | Jenni, Jane, Jennifer, Genevieve, Jen, Jenna |
Jenny was originally the diminutive form of Jane[1] but 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 (singer), Spanish singer
- 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 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 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 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), a character 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 that occasionally helps the Doctor in Doctor Who
- Jenny Humphrey, a character in Gossip Girl and It Girl
- Jenny Kelly, best friend of Sabrina the Teenage Witch during season 1
- Jenny Reilly, a character in The Black Donnellys
- Jenny Shepard, a character in the television series NCIS
- Jenny Szalinski, a character from Honey, We Shrunk Ourselves
- Jenny Wakeman, a character in the Nickelodeon cartoon My Life as a Teenage Robot
- Jenny Wolek, a character in One Life to Live
- Jenny The Witch, a character in the 2003 film Big Fish and the 1998 novel Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
- Jenny, a character from the Wayside School books and cartoon
- Jenny, a character 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, a character in The Threepenny Opera, based on Jenny Diver
- Officer Jenny, the names of the many police officers in Pokémon
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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