Girls' name · since 2012
Penelopy
Penelopy has 88 recorded births since 2012 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2018 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #28,596 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 88
- born since 2012
- 2010s
- peak decade
Penelopy is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 88 have been recorded since 2012.
Penelopy has 88 recorded births among girls since 2012, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2010s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2012 to 2023.
- #28,596 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- 88 born since 2012
- 2010s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Penelopy ranks #28,596 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 88 born since 2012, peaking in the 2010s.
- #28,596 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- 88
- born since 2012
- 2010s
- peak decade
Penelopy's 88 recorded births place it above 60.41% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Penelopy's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Penelopy splits its recorded history at 2017: 57% of all births land in the more recent half, 43% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2023 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2018 peak of 11 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Penelopy popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2012–2023
- Peak year (2018)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 12 years of records
Penelopy by decade
2010s is the heaviest window (67 births, 76% of the file).
2010s was Penelopy's strongest decade.
67 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 76% of all-time use.
Penelopy births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
67 births
- 2020s 21
2020s
21 births
What this shows Peak: 2010s at 67 births (76% of all-time use).
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- Penelopy's decade-level peak was the 2010s (67 total births); usage has since declined to 21 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Two nationwide peer axes for Penelopy: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
Similar peak year (~2018)
Similar record span (~11 yrs)
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, 2012–2023 (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 Penelopy 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.