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Persephone: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 372 in 2025. Its best rank was #683 in 2022.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #683 in 2022; #735 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Persephone in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#735 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2022, at #683.
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Persephone: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 372 girls in 2025. Peak: #683 in 2022 · most girls in one year: 429 (2022).
In 2025, 372 US girls were named Persephone, making it the 735th most common girls’ name of the year, up 1 place from #736 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 383 girls named Persephone in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #683, reached in 2022. That year also had the most girls given the name: 429. For comparison, it was #1,334 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Persephone in 60 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 6 babies. In all, 4,960 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 2,261 babies named Persephone.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,206 US girls were named Persephone; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 429. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,321 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Persephone ranked highest in Alaska in 2025, at #130 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. The open nickname list we use links it to Seph and Sephy.
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Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 23 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alaska | 6 | #130 | — |
| Nevada | 8 | #367 | — |
| New Mexico | 5 | #370 | — |
| Oregon | 10 | #382 | #573 |
| Washington | 17 | #426 | #688 |
| Nebraska | 5 | #459 | — |
| Oklahoma | 8 | #533 | — |
| Arizona | 13 | #541 | #640 |
| Colorado | 10 | #574 | #1,002 |
| Missouri | 9 | #626 | — |
| Kansas | 5 | #666 | — |
| Georgia | 16 | #670 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 15 | #680 | #1,093 |
| Utah | 6 | #685 | — |
| Wisconsin | 7 | #686 | — |
| New York | 24 | #698 | #1,358 |
| Ohio | 14 | #707 | #1,640 |
| Massachusetts | 7 | #738 | — |
| Virginia | 10 | #749 | — |
| Michigan | 10 | #771 | — |
| North Carolina | 12 | #818 | — |
| Illinois | 11 | #840 | #1,855 |
| Texas | 35 | #857 | #1,307 |
| Florida | 19 | #858 | #1,603 |
| Louisiana | 5 | #877 | — |
| California | 33 | #887 | #1,082 |
| Alabama | 5 | #919 | — |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,096 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 372 | #735 | — | — |
| 2024 | 383 | #736 | — | — |
| 2023 | 377 | #748 | — | — |
| 2022 | 429 | #683 | — | — |
| 2021 | 367 | #775 | — | — |
| 2020 | 333 | #820 | — | — |
| 2019 | 287 | #926 | — | — |
| 2018 | 236 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 2017 | 226 | #1,119 | — | — |
| 2016 | 196 | #1,250 | — | — |
| 2015 | 178 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 2014 | 203 | #1,203 | — | — |
| 2013 | 171 | #1,368 | — | — |
| 2012 | 143 | #1,547 | — | — |
| 2011 | 136 | #1,596 | — | — |
| 2010 | 111 | #1,841 | — | — |
| 2009 | 87 | #2,265 | — | — |
| 2008 | 59 | #2,987 | — | — |
| 2007 | 64 | #2,847 | — | — |
| 2006 | 59 | #2,934 | — | — |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,308 | — | — |
| 2004 | 43 | #3,479 | — | — |
| 2003 | 45 | #3,278 | — | — |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,067 | — | — |
| 2001 | 22 | #5,327 | — | — |
| 2000 | 20 | #5,638 | — | — |
| 1999 | 22 | #4,991 | — | — |
| 1998 | 25 | #4,466 | — | — |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,358 | — | — |
| 1996 | 11 | #7,975 | — | — |
| 1995 | 16 | #5,882 | — | — |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,268 | — | — |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,937 | — | — |
| 1991 | 14 | #6,492 | — | — |
| 1990 | 13 | #6,752 | — | — |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,064 | — | — |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,347 | — | — |
| 1987 | 9 | #7,815 | — | — |
| 1985 | 6 | #10,271 | — | — |
| 1984 | 6 | #10,001 | — | — |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,497 | — | — |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,927 | — | — |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,213 | — | — |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,224 | — | — |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,703 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,264 | — | — |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,171 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,914 | — | — |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,951 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,383 | — | — |
| 1973 | 9 | #5,919 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,470 | — | — |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,415 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,700 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,337 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,791 | — | — |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,894 | — | — |
| 1965 | 7 | #5,663 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,863 | — | — |
| 1962 | 6 | #6,385 | — | — |
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).