Permelia
Permelia was last recorded in 1963, when 6 babies were given it; 551 Americans have been recorded with it between 1880 and 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Permelia by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Permelia?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #6,410, in 1963; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
20 babies in 1918, the peak
Permelia peaked in 1918, when 20 girls were given it, #1,946 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1963 | 6 | #6,410 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 6 | #6,051 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #5,273 | under 0.01 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,659 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,682 | under 0.01 |
| 1953 | 6 | #5,507 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,819 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,712 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,843 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,256 | under 0.01 |
Every recorded year (64)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | 6 | #4,442 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,575 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,374 | 0.01 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,870 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,769 | 0.01 |
| 1939 | 14 | #2,284 | 0.01 |
| 1938 | 6 | #4,231 | 0.01 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,777 | under 0.01 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,719 | under 0.01 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,673 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 6 | #4,188 | 0.01 |
| 1933 | 8 | #3,347 | 0.01 |
| 1932 | 14 | #2,343 | 0.01 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,424 | 0.01 |
| 1930 | 7 | #3,967 | 0.01 |
| 1929 | 10 | #3,095 | 0.01 |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,692 | 0.01 |
| 1926 | 9 | #3,489 | 0.01 |
| 1925 | 13 | #2,741 | 0.01 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,329 | 0.01 |
| 1923 | 15 | #2,443 | 0.01 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,734 | 0.01 |
| 1921 | 18 | #2,178 | 0.01 |
| 1920 | 12 | #2,859 | 0.01 |
| 1919 | 8 | #3,731 | 0.01 |
| 1918 | 20 | #1,946 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 15 | #2,290 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 17 | #2,011 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,858 | 0.01 |
| 1914 | 8 | #2,821 | 0.01 |
| 1912 | 12 | #1,704 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,788 | 0.01 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,096 | 0.02 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,320 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 7 | #1,688 | 0.02 |
| 1905 | 5 | #2,168 | 0.02 |
| 1903 | 9 | #1,292 | 0.03 |
| 1902 | 9 | #1,303 | 0.03 |
| 1901 | 5 | #1,887 | 0.02 |
| 1900 | 7 | #1,694 | 0.02 |
| 1899 | 7 | #1,367 | 0.03 |
| 1898 | 5 | #1,906 | 0.02 |
| 1896 | 8 | #1,280 | 0.03 |
| 1895 | 11 | #1,040 | 0.05 |
| 1894 | 9 | #1,117 | 0.04 |
| 1893 | 13 | #856 | 0.06 |
| 1892 | 9 | #1,073 | 0.04 |
| 1891 | 7 | #1,187 | 0.04 |
| 1890 | 7 | #1,177 | 0.04 |
| 1889 | 6 | #1,242 | 0.03 |
| 1888 | 9 | #945 | 0.05 |
| 1884 | 6 | #1,002 | 0.05 |
| 1881 | 12 | #499 | 0.13 |
| 1880 | 9 | #622 | 0.10 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Permelia a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Permelia has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 64 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Permelia: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Permelia, and how old are they?
An estimated 84 Americans named Permelia and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 171 people named Permelia (171 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 118 born in the U.S. The Census count is 45% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Permelia
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Permelia and names like it
- Compare Permelia and RillaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sPermelia peaked in 1918.
- The top names of 1918The year the most babies were named Permelia.
- Names starting with PMost given first.