Penellope
- Gender
- Girl
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Penellope is a girls' name. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
Is Penellope a girl's or a boy's name?
Penellope is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 7 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Penellope in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- #11,928among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Penellope, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 16 girls. It first appears in the records in 2013.
Half of all the girls named Penellope in the US since 1880 were born between 2017 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 6,245 girls in the US were given Penellope or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #34, up from #11,928 for this spelling alone.
Penellope in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 0 | – |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,481 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 5 | #15,246 |
| 2020 | 7 | #12,137 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,088 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,109 |
| 2015 | 6 | #14,477 |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
Names like Penellope
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Phoebe Josephine Adeline Adelaide Caroline Olive Clementine Isabelle Josie Salome Millie Eliza
Other spellings of Penellope
Names related to Penellope
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Penellope: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/penellope, updated 20 October 2026.