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Penelope

Pronounced /pɪˈnɛləpi/

Rank in 2024
#28
Born in 2024
5,741
Peak year
2019 · #22
Origin
Ancient Greek

1880 to 2024

Rising
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 5,741 girls were named Penelope, about 1 in every 281.
  • It peaked in 2019 with 6,733 babies, ranked #22.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 103,215 girls have been named Penelope since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Penelope per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. 0.2
    Silent
  3. 0.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0.4
    Gen Z
  7. 3.6
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 741 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 4,686 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Boomers: 9,156 babies, 0.26 per 1,000. Gen X: 3,207 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,004 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Z: 11,949 babies, 0.41 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 72,396 babies, 3.56 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Ancient Greek Πηνελόπη (Pēnelópē), possibly from πηνέλοψ (pēnélops, “duck”).

  • A female given name from Ancient Greek.
Origin
Ancient Greek
Say it
/pɪˈnɛləpi/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Penelope, CC BY-SA 4.0.