Perfecta

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Perfecta has been given to 25 babies in the U.S. since 1916. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1916, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Perfecta, 1946

1 in 639,000

Perfecta over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Perfecta: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Perfecta means

Perfecta is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Perfecta is used in Cebuano.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 25 girls were recorded with the name Perfecta between 1916 and 1946. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1916; its best national rank was #3,844 in 1916.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Perfecta?

Perfecta had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1946, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1946: 1 in 639,000; 5 of 3,195,175 births
Among girls only: 1 in 314,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 1946: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 442,946 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Perfecta 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 1946 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 442,946 children born in 1946 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Perfecta. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Perfectas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Perfecta was born before 1917 — so the typical Perfecta is around 108 today.

Median birth year: 1917; About 108 years old
Biggest decade: 1910s; 56.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 44.0%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 0; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1910s — 56.0% of all recorded uses (14).

Is Perfecta 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1916 (7)
Years since peak: 109; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Very steady; 0% average annual change
Best rank ever: #3,844; 1916

Where Perfecta is used

Across 1910–2025, Perfecta was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,116,447 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Texas1 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. Perfecta has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Perfecta by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #3,844; 1916
Peak year: 1916; 7 that year
First recorded: 1916
Last recorded: 1946
All-time count: 25
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Perfecta

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

Perfect Persayis Persaius Persaeus Perriann Perlean Perrine Perseis Persayus Perpetua Pernetta Perdita Periann Perseus Perlina Perette Peregrine Pernella Perlena Persephany Perlene Pertina Perola Perianne

Sibling names for Perfecta

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

For a sister

Era Leatha Leone Artie Alpha Hettie Cecil Ona

For a brother

Winfield Dorsey Isadore Aloysius Hyman Regis Sydney Meyer

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