girls:
32 births since 2007
#5684 (1st percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1983
#3529 (23rd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1983
#6640 (14th percentile)
The name Perseus is the #6,640 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,099 recorded births since 1983. This represents the 14.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,529 (23.0% percentile) for all time with 1,067 births since 1983. For girls, it ranks #5,684 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 32 births since 2007.
Perseus first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1983 (1983 for boys and 2007 for girls). Birth data for Perseus is available in 19 out of the 41 years between 1983 and 2023 (17 years for boys and 6 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 Perseus has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.1% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Perseus reached its peak popularity in 2022, achieving the 13.5% percentile (ranked #799) with 69 births per million. The name was most common in 2022, with 69 births per million (ranked 13.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2009, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Perseus is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #793 (13.0% percentile) with 67 births per million.
For girls, Perseus reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #955) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2016.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Perseus".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Perseus. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 59.2% confident that Perseus is pronounced as PER-see-uhs, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PER-sues, at 20.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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