Baby Names That Start With P
Girls' and boys' names beginning with P, ranked by how many babies actually got them, plus how the letter itself has risen or fallen over the last century.
- Girls with P, 2025
- 2.1%
- vs 1.2% in 2000
- Girls' P names in use
- 236
- 1,164 recorded since 1880
- Girls' peak
- 1951
- at 6.5% of names
- Boys with P, 2025
- 1.2%
- vs 1.7% in 2000
- Boys' P names in use
- 200
- 719 recorded since 1880
- Boys' peak
- 1964
- at 3.5% of names
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 | |||
| 1,316#262 | Down 10 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 1,495#235 | Down 30 rank positions in five years | 1964 | |||
| 82#2,251 | Down 577 rank positions in five years | 1954 | |||
| 1,954#187 | Up 28 rank positions in five years | 1957 | |||
| 568#528 | Down 75 rank positions in five years | 1953 | |||
| 425#651 | Down 132 rank positions in five years | 1960 | |||
| 318#855 | Down 31 rank positions in five years | 1963 | |||
| 350#777 | Steady | 1918 | |||
| 884#346 | Down 69 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 3,477#102 | Down 7 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 1,131#299 | Down 71 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 684#455 | Down 44 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 1,559#199 | Down 101 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 135#1,373 | Down 112 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 398#684 | Down 251 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 743#430 | Down 45 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 138#1,536 | Up 128 rank positions in five years | 1948 | |||
| 1,885#157 | Up 97 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 58#2,382 | Up 153 rank positions in five years | 1959 | |||
| 497#592 | Down 176 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 2,536#106 | Up 22 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 154#1,279 | Up 782 rank positions in five years | 1921 | |||
| 1,362#225 | Down 12 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 79#2,318 | Up 683 rank positions in five years | 1964 | |||
| 988#338 | Down 76 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 109#1,569 | Down 447 rank positions in five years | 2000 | |||
| 1,027#329 | Down 93 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 178#1,260 | Down 304 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 703#447 | Down 132 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 531#560 | Down 136 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 132#1,590 | Down 577 rank positions in five years | 2003 | |||
| 598#505 | Down 1 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 346#784 | Up 50 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 159#1,253 | Down 138 rank positions in five years | 1988 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 422#653 | Down 241 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 230#995 | Up 193 rank positions in five years | 2023 | |||
| 60#2,326 | Down 237 rank positions in five years | 1991 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 110#1,559 | Up 59 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 372#735 | Up 85 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 88#1,819 | Down 252 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 84#2,211 | Down 212 rank positions in five years | 2002 | |||
| 59#2,346 | Down 63 rank positions in five years | 2009 | |||
| 56#2,440 | Down 553 rank positions in five years | 2004 | |||
| 148#1,456 | Up 402 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 59#2,347 | Up 189 rank positions in five years | 2006 | |||
| 76#2,003 | Up 530 rank positions in five years | 2007 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 123#1,456 | Down 319 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 102#1,907 | Down 318 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 182#1,238 | Up 302 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 105#1,616 | Down 182 rank positions in five years | 2016 | |||
| 40#3,073 | Up 633 rank positions in five years | 1974 | |||
| 51#2,593 | Up 876 rank positions in five years | 1999 | |||
| 81#2,273 | Down 414 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 73#2,051 | Down 854 rank positions in five years | 2019 | |||
| 61#2,808 | Up 6 rank positions in five years | 2022 | |||
| 42#2,971 | Up 575 rank positions in five years | 2017 | |||
| 107#1,864 | Up 156 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 36#3,290 | Down 904 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 37#3,224 | Up 666 rank positions in five years | 2008 | |||
| 77#1,987 | Up 1,028 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 113#1,536 | Up 1,183 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 36#3,291 | Down 757 rank positions in five years | 2015 | |||
| 168#1,210 | Up 313 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 48#2,707 | Down 733 rank positions in five years | 2020 | |||
| 48#2,706 | Down 733 rank positions in five years | 2014 | |||
| 53#2,528 | Up 264 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 72#2,074 | Up 152 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 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 | |||
| 36#3,289 | Down 38 rank positions in five years | 2024 | |||
| 194#1,110 | Up 1,907 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 44#2,870 | Down 556 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 51#2,594 | Up 730 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 65#2,679 | Down 135 rank positions in five years | 2021 | |||
| 56#2,439 | Up 2,223 rank positions in five years | 2025 | |||
| 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.
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.
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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.