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Perpetua: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #5,668 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Perpetua in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,668 for US girls in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Perpetua: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 girls in 2025. Peak: #5,668 in 2025 · most girls in one year: 22 (2025).
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Perpetua, making it the 5,668th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,163 places from #8,831 in 2024. That is 10 more than the 12 girls named Perpetua in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #5,668, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most girls given the name: 22. For comparison, it was #8,335 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Perpetua in 16 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2007 with 7 babies. In all, 199 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 102 babies named Perpetua.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 145 US girls were named Perpetua; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 73,058 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).