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Perdita

Girl

Perdita is a girls' name, meaning “loss”. In 2025 it ranked 4,276th for girls in the UK (5 babies).

What does Perdita mean?

“loss”

A female given name.

From Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Is Perdita a girl's or a boy's name?

Perdita is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Perdita in the UK?

Rank in 2025
#4,276among girls
Babies in 2025
5about 1 in 56,000 girls
Five-year trend
Fallingdown 31% in five years
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 5 girls in the UK were named Perdita, making it the 4,276th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 5,734th. Its busiest year was 2007, with 10 girls.

Half of all the girls named Perdita in the UK since 1996 were born between 2004 and 2016. It was already well used in 1996, when the records begin, so earlier girls aren't counted.

Among girls in 2025, it was 4,200th in England and Wales.

1996Busiest: 10 in 20072025
Perdita in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20255#4,276
20240–
20234#4,915
20224#4,870
20217#3,338
20203#5,734
20195#4,214
20185#4,204
20175#4,250
20164#4,980
20157#3,433
20146#3,702
20137#3,338
20125#4,390
20119#2,794
20107#3,308
200910#2,478
20087#3,203
200710#2,354
20063#5,259
20053#4,976
20045#3,356
20037#2,574
20025#3,047
20014#3,427
20000–
19994#3,374
19985#2,855
19977#2,281
19965#2,815

Names like Perdita

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.