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The JENNEY surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
Total Rank Frequency % Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot) 922 25221 0 3
United States (1880 census) 605 8283 0.001 12
Change since 1880 +317 -16938 +N/A -9
Other Countries
Australia 2 266718 0 0
United Kingdom 143 20058 0 3
Top States for JENNEY by Total
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 142 5411 0.002 22
New York 104 16649 0.001 5
Florida 80 19485 0.001 5
Pennsylvania 70 18903 0.001 6
Ohio 67 17678 0.001 6
Top States for JENNEY by Frequency
State Total Rank in State Frequency % Per million people
Massachusetts 142 5411 0.002 22
Vermont 12 6692 0.002 20
Delaware 15 8205 0.002 19
Maine 19 7170 0.001 15
Iowa 25 16077 0.001 9

Notes

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called JENNEY live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called JENNEY represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called JENNEY in Massachusetts than any other state, but you are more likely to find a JENNEY by picking someone at random in Massachusetts than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of JENNEY

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: Location or Geographical Feature

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the JENNEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the JENNEY surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of JENNEY in the USA

Classification Total Percent
White (Caucasian) 885 95.99
White (Hispanic) 13 1.41
Mixed Race 11 1.19
Asian/Pacific 10 1.08
Black/African American Less than 100 Insignificant
Native American/Alaskan Less than 100 Insignificant

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the JENNEY surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Meaning of JENNEY in historical publications

JENNEY. The family of Jenney of Bredfield, CO. Suffolk, " are supposed to be of French extraction, and the name to be derived from Guisnes near Calais. The first in the pedigree is Edward Jenney, grandfather of John Jenney, who died in 14G0." Shirley's Noble and Gentle Men. "The name of this family was originally spelt Gyney." B.L.G.

Lower, Mark A (1860) Patronymica Britannica: a dictionary of the family names of the United Kingdom. London: J.R. Smith. Public Domain.


Similar names to JENNEY

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as JENNEY.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.

Potential typos for JENNEY

The following words are slight variants of JENNEY that are likely to be possible typos or misspellings in written material.