Pennelope
Recorded for girlsGen Z2025 rank
#8,234
up +595 places
2025 births
13
up +1 births
All-time births
399
3% of them in 2025
More common than
81%
of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2017
- 30 births
- Best rank
- #3,339
- in 1952
- First recorded
- 1942
- #5,204 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1998
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 36 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 201730#4,671Peak
- 201925#5,280
- 201421#6,154
- 201320#6,419
- 202018#6,570
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #3,339 in 1952 · peak births 30 in 2017
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Pennelope has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The boys' series
No boys have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.