Perpetua
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- per-PECH-oo-uh
- Origin
- Latin
- US rank, 2025
- #5,553 for girls
Perpetua is a girls' name of Latin origin, meaning “everlasting, perpetual”. In 2025 it ranked 5,553rd for girls in the US (22 babies).
What does Perpetua mean?
Latin: Latin word
“everlasting, perpetual”
Saint Perpetua was a young noblewoman martyred at Carthage in 203; her prison diary is among the earliest Christian writings by a woman.
Is Perpetua a girl's or a boy's name?
Perpetua is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 22 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Perpetua in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,553rd among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 22 about 1 in 73,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Rising up 53% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 22 girls in the US were named Perpetua, making it the 5,553rd most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,401st. Its busiest year was 2022, with 22 girls. It first appears in the records in 2007.
Half of all the girls named Perpetua in the US since 1880 were born between 2015 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Perpetua in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,553 |
| 2024 | 12 | #8,438 |
| 2023 | 21 | #5,747 |
| 2022 | 22 | #5,635 |
| 2021 | 13 | #8,019 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,401 |
| 2019 | 11 | #9,106 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,142 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,337 |
| 2016 | 8 | #11,776 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,004 |
| 2014 | 6 | #14,552 |
| 2013 | 17 | #7,027 |
| 2012 | 5 | #16,863 |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 5 | #16,985 |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 7 | #13,918 |
Names like Perpetua
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Marigold, Amora, Analeia, Palmer, Luciana, Dua, Alaia, Ximena, Solana, Luna, Lucianna, Antonella
More Latin names
Oliver, Olivia, Leo, Roman, Aurora, Emily, Florence, Mabel, Nora, Rosie, Emilia, Max, Nova, Lucy, Julian, Clara
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, “Perpetua: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/perpetua, updated 20 October 2026.