Girls' name · since 2007
Perpetua
Perpetua has 199 recorded births since 2007 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2022 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #19,873 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,690 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 199
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
Yes -- Perpetua is the #5690 most popular girls' name in the U.S. today, with 199 recorded since 2007.
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Perpetua has been recorded 199 times among girls since 2007, currently ranked #5690 nationally and more common than 67% of girls, with its heaviest use in the 2020s. This profile covers year-by-year birth trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution, all derived directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2007 to 2025.
- #19,873 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #5,690 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 199 born since 2007
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Perpetua ranks #19,873 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #5,690 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 199 born since 2007, peaking in the 2020s.
- #19,873 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #5,690 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 199
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
Perpetua's 199 recorded births place it above 72.5% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Perpetua compares
199 37th 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
Perpetua's all-time total is 47% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Perpetua | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 199 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 22 | 21 | 19,840 |
Perpetua's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Perpetua splits its recorded history at 2018: 63% of all births land in the more recent half, 37% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2010 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2022 peak of 22 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Perpetua popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–2025
- Peak year (2022)
- 22
- Annual births at peak, across 19 years of records
Perpetua by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (102 births, 51% of the file).
2020s was Perpetua's strongest decade.
102 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 51% of all-time use.
Perpetua births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 7
2000s
7 births
- 2010s
2010s
90 births
- 2020s
2020s
102 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 102 births (51% of all-time use).
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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, 2007–2025 (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 Perpetua 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.