Meaning not yet researched.
Perseus: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 168 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,210 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 Perseus in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,210 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Perseus: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 168 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,210 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 168 (2025).
In 2025, 168 US boys were named Perseus, making it the 1,210th most common boys’ name of the year, up 73 places from #1,283 in 2024. That is 14 more than the 154 boys named Perseus in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,210, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 168. For comparison, it was #2,474 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Perseus in 21 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1983 with 6 babies. In all, 1,422 US babies have been given the name, 2.3% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 813 babies named Perseus.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,130 US boys were named Perseus; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 168. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,167 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Perseus ranked highest in Utah in 2025, at #543 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Rarer spellings such as Persis, Persais and Persayus are summarised on this page.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Persis (572), Persais (90), Persayus (56), Persaeus (42), Perseis (24), Persaius (18), Perceus (13), Persaus (8).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Perseus in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 39 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Utah | 8 | #543 | — |
| Ohio | 10 | #846 | — |
| Missouri | 6 | #848 | — |
| Washington | 7 | #871 | — |
| Arizona | 6 | #912 | — |
| Colorado | 5 | #930 | — |
| Indiana | 5 | #1,044 | — |
| Florida | 9 | #1,327 | — |
| California | 14 | #1,348 | #2,487 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,399 | #2,322 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,423 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,525 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 168 | #1,210 |
| 2024 | — | — | 154 | #1,283 |
| 2023 | — | — | 123 | #1,469 |
| 2022 | — | — | 130 | #1,419 |
| 2021 | — | — | 128 | #1,429 |
| 2020 | — | — | 110 | #1,523 |
| 2019 | — | — | 105 | #1,590 |
| 2018 | — | — | 93 | #1,698 |
| 2017 | — | — | 55 | #2,377 |
| 2016 | 7 | #14,010 | 64 | #2,160 |
| 2015 | — | — | 51 | #2,474 |
| 2014 | — | — | 47 | #2,610 |
| 2013 | — | — | 60 | #2,195 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,890 | 38 | #3,045 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,900 | 31 | #3,494 |
| 2010 | 5 | #19,153 | 17 | #5,415 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,505 | — | — |
| 2008 | — | — | 5 | #14,091 |
| 2007 | 5 | #19,799 | — | — |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,895 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #6,033 |
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).