Girl Names That Start With P
Girls' names beginning with P, ranked by how many babies actually got them — not by editorial preference — plus which ones are climbing and how the letter itself has moved.
- Share of girls, 2025
- 2.1%
- vs 1.2% in 2000
- Names in use
- 236
- 1,164 recorded since 1880
- Letter peaked
- 1951
- at 6.5% of names
- Rank among 26 letters
- #17
- by 2025 share
How P has fared since 1880
Share of all listed U.S. births given a name starting with P, year by year. Plotted as a share rather than a count — raw counts track how many babies were born, so every letter would appear to peak in 1957.
| Save name | Name & meaning | History 1926–2025, yearly counts; individually scaled | Babies 2025 · rank | 5-year rank movement | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 167#1,336 | Down 219 rank positions in five years | 1951 | |||
| 82#2,251 | Down 577 rank positions in five years | 1954 | |||
| 318#855 | Down 31 rank positions in five years | 1963 | |||
| 350#777 | Steady | 1918 | |||
| 884#346 | Down 69 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 555#544 | Up 19 rank positions in five years | 1942 | |||
| 6,225#22 | Up 4 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 368#740 | Down 13 rank positions in five years | 1963 | |||
| 1,559#199 | Down 101 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 3,508#67 | Down 18 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 1,940#155 | Down 64 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 701#440 | Down 222 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 138#1,536 | Up 128 rank positions in five years | 1948 | |||
| 1,885#157 | Up 97 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 497#592 | Down 176 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 2,536#106 | Up 22 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 1,362#225 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 79#2,318 | Up 683 rank positions in five years | 1964 | |||
| 178#1,260 | Down 304 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 132#1,590 | Down 577 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 346#784 | Up 50 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 567#534 | Down 249 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 209#1,122 | Down 327 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 161#1,372 | Down 94 rank positions in five years | 1927 | |||
| 172#1,297 | Down 217 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 423#669 | Down 290 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 343#793 | Up 147 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 101#1,920 | Up 211 rank positions in five years | 1922 | |||
| 1,054#292 | Up 165 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 1,330#232 | Up 116 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 99#1,956 | Down 291 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 330#826 | Up 27 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 107#1,863 | Down 875 rank positions in five years | 2010 | |||
| 89#2,113 | Up 54 rank positions in five years | 1943 | |||
| 372#735 | Up 85 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 84#2,211 | Down 212 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 148#1,456 | Up 402 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 142#1,509 | Down 224 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 83#2,233 | Down 140 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 238#1,045 | Down 176 rank positions in five years | 2018 | |||
| 102#1,907 | Down 318 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 182#1,238 | Up 302 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 81#2,273 | Down 414 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 61#2,808 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 107#1,864 | Up 156 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 69#2,561 | Down 414 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 68#2,578 | Up 268 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 65#2,680 | Up 699 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 65#2,679 | Down 135 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 82#2,252 | Up 4,607 rank positions in five years | 2025 |
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P names climbing fastest
Biggest P names of all time
By total applications since 1880 — a different list from the one above, because it counts every generation, not just this one.
Every other letter
Sources & methodology
Rankings and counts come from official birth card-application data, 1880–2025. Counts are card applications rather than births, and any name given to fewer than 5 babies of one sex in a year is not published — so “—” means genuinely uncommon, never invalid. The “climbing fastest” row ranks by five-year rank movement as a ratio, and a name must be inside the top 1,000 with at least 200 applications in 2025 to qualify — a looser gate than the site-wide trending list uses, because inside a single letter the stricter one leaves some letters empty. Letter shares are measured over listed names only, and the 25-year comparison is a generation rather than five years because letter fashion moves far more slowly than any one name.