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NAMES LIKE PENELOPE
Same rise and fall as Penelope, around the same years.
WHERE PENELOPE IS POPULAR · 2024
In 2024, Penelope ranked highest in Maine (#35) and lowest in Mississippi (#248).
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MARKET MOVERS · 10 YEARS
Penelope name popularity
Penelope has been given to 109,533 babies in the United States since 1880.
It peaked in 2019, when 6,734 babies got the name, and its best rank was #67 in 2025.
In 2025, 6,225 babies were named Penelope (#67 in the country), 8% below the peak. That is up 4% from 2015.
Almost every Penelope is a girl.
An estimated 103K people named Penelope are alive in the US today, with a median age of 9.
It was a top-100 name in 10 of the 146 years on record.
HOW IT WORKS
The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.
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