girls:
12 births since 2014
#5704 (0th percentile)
boys:
21 births since 1914
#4565 (0th percentile)
overall:
33 births since 1914
#7706 (0th percentile)
The name Penrose is the #7,706 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 33 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 0.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,565 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 21 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,704 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 12 births since 2014.
Penrose first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 2014 for girls). Birth data for Penrose is available in 6 out of the 109 years between 1914 and 2022 (4 years for boys and 2 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Penrose has been given to both genders, with a slight preference for boys (63.6% of all recorded births). In 2022, 0.0% of babies named Penrose were boys. Interestingly, until around 2014, the name was more popular for boys (100.0% boys from 1914 to 2013), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (100.0% girls from 2014 to 2022).
For boys, Penrose reached its peak popularity in 1921, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #549) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1914, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1925.
For girls, Penrose reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #957) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Penrose".
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