Girls' name · since 1975
Penda
Penda has 101 recorded births since 1975 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2008 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #27,039 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,351 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 101
- born since 1975
- 2000s
- peak decade
Penda currently ranks #15351 among girls' names in America, with 101 babies recorded since 1975.
Penda has 101 recorded births among girls since 1975, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #15351 as of the latest data, more common than 11% of girls, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1975 to 2025.
- #27,039 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #15,351 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 101 born since 1975
- 2000s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Penda ranks #27,039 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #15,351 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 101 born since 1975, peaking in the 2000s.
- #27,039 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #15,351 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 101
- born since 1975
- 2000s
- peak decade
Penda's 101 recorded births place it above 62.58% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Penda compares
101 25th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Penda's all-time total is 73% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Penda | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 101 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 9 | 21 | 19,840 |
Penda's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Penda's full recorded timeline at 2008, 53% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 47% in the earlier half -- a fairly even split across the full record. Its quietest year on record was 1998, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 2008 peak of 9 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Penda popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1975–2025
- Peak year (2008)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 51 years of records
Penda by decade
2000s is the heaviest window (42 births, 42% of the file).
2000s was Penda's strongest decade.
42 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 42% of all-time use.
Penda births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1970s 8
1970s
8 births
- 1990s 11
1990s
11 births
- 2000s
2000s
42 births
- 2010s
2010s
21 births
- 2020s
2020s
19 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 42 births (42% of all-time use).
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- Penda's usage has stayed within range of its 2000s decade-level peak (42 total births) through the 2020s (19) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1975–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Penda draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.