Penelopi
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- peh-NEL-oh-pee
- Origin
- Greek
- US rank, 2025
- #11,928 for girls
Penelopi is a girls' name of Greek origin. In 2025 it ranked 11,928th for girls in the US (7 babies).
What does Penelopi mean?
Greek: variant of Penelope
A spelling of Penelope, the faithful wife of Odysseus in Homer's Odyssey.
Is Penelopi a girl's or a boy's name?
Penelopi 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 Penelopi in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 11,928th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 7 about 1 in 230,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 7 girls in the US were named Penelopi, making it the 11,928th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. Its busiest year was 2017, with 17 girls. It first appears in the records in 2011.
2025 had fewer girls named Penelopi than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Penelopi in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2022, the years shaded on the chart below.
Penelopi in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #11,928 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 10 | #9,611 |
| 2022 | 8 | #11,225 |
| 2021 | 11 | #8,973 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,592 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,146 |
| 2017 | 17 | #6,804 |
| 2016 | 7 | #12,871 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,143 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,124 |
| 2013 | 7 | #13,145 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,146 |
Nicknames for Penelopi
Names like Penelopi
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Marigold, Palmer, Kehlani, Calliope, Persephone, Analeia, Jaylani, Kyomi, Malani, Milani, Cataleya, Meilani
Names related to Penelopi
More Greek names
Luca, Theodore, Sophia, George, Theo, Lucas, Sofia, Alexander, Sebastian, Phoebe, Margot, Luke, Chloe, Sophie, Zoe, Iris
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, “Penelopi: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/penelopi, updated 20 October 2026.