Penelopi

#12,865 in 2025Girls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Penelopi has been given to 141 babies in the U.S. since 2011. In 2025 it ranked #12,865 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2017, with 17 recorded.

Babies named Penelopi, 2025

1 in 474,000

Penelopi over time, 1880–2025

Girls
0510152018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

How common is Penelopi?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 474,000
7 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 230,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#12,865
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
328,272 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Penelopi sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Penelopi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Penelopis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Penelopi was born before 2018 — so the typical Penelopi is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
61.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
141
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 61.7% of all recorded uses (87).

Is Penelopi rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−4,042
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,827
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−2,180
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.70×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
41.2%
Peak was 2017 (17)
Years since peak
8
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
41.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,027
2017

Spellings of Penelopi

Penelopi is not the most common spelling — Penelope is, with 99.9% against Penelopi's 0.13%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Penelopi is used

Across 1910–2025, Penelopi was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,077,877 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Penelopi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Penelopi around the world

Where Penelopi ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • South Australia
    1960–1981
    #616
    in 1981

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Penelopi by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#12,865
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,827
Best rank ever
#7,027
2017
Peak year
2017
17 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
141
Count in 2025
7

Names similar to Penelopi

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Penelopi

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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