Girl name#354 of girl names
Penelope
Pronounced P AH0 N EH1 L AH0 P IY0 (ARPABET)
- 4 syllables
- Peaked 2019
- 145 years in use
How popular is Penelope?
Penelope is a girls' name, and has been in the record since the data starts in 1880. It has been given to 103,493 children — the 354th most common girls' name on record.
It is climbing hard: about three times as many births in the past decade as in the one before it. Its best single year was 2019, when 6,745 children were given it.
Characteristics
- Alliterative
- 4 syllables
Phonetic detail
- Pronunciations:
- P AH0 N EH1 L AH0 P IY0
- Stress pattern:
- 0100
- Syllables:
- 4
Stress digits mark unstressed (0), primary (1) and secondary (2) syllables.
Names like Penelope
Same first letter and syllable count, peaking around the same time.
Sibling names for Penelope
Names from the same era with a matching rhythm but a different initial.
Frequently asked questions
- How popular is the name Penelope?
- Penelope ranks 354th among girls' names in US records, with 103,493 births since 1880. Over the past decade it accounts for 63,140.
- Is Penelope a unisex name?
- No. Penelope is recorded almost entirely as a girls' name; births to the other gender are too few to register as a share.
- When was Penelope most popular?
- 2019, when 6,745 children were given the name. It has been in use for 145 years and is still recorded as of 2024.