Perpetua

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Perpetua: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

2registrars recorded it
5times a registrar ranked it
53years from first to last
#310highest recorded position

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 2009–2017

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2009	#5556
2017	#5765

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 2 of the 9 years from 2009 to 2017.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1965–2017 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1965
First recorded at #385 among girls in Republic of Ireland in 1965 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Highest recorded1965–1971
Highest recorded position: #310 among girls in Republic of Ireland, in 1966 (recorded 1965–1971).
Republic of Ireland · Girls
Most recent2017
Most recently recorded at #5765 among girls in England and Wales, in 2017.
England and Wales · Girls

Perpetua appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Republic of Ireland · Girls, which has ranked it in 3 years beginning in 1965, and has registered 11 births with the name.

Perpetua across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Perpetua's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#5556 (2009)	#5556 (2009)	#5765 (2017)	2 of 9	6 (2009–2017)	3 (2009)
Republic of Ireland · Girls	#385 (1965)	#310 (1966)	#466 (1971)	3 of 7	11 (1965–1971)	5 (1966)

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1965 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #310 in Republic of Ireland in 1966.

Perpetua's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
1971	Republic of Ireland	female	#466	3	High	Verified
1966	Republic of Ireland	female	#310	5	High	Verified
1965	Republic of Ireland	female	#385	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

Where Perpetua is officially recorded

2 official registrars have recorded Perpetua, between 1965 and 2017, in 5 of those 53 years. Each registrar publishes for its own population on its own methodology, so the positions below are each one country's own ranking and are not comparable with one another.

Registrar	Recorded	Years	Its own highest position
Republic of Ireland	1965–1971	3	#310 in 1966
England and Wales	2009–2017	2	#5556 in 2009

Its high point came 43 years earlier in Republic of Ireland (1966) than in England and Wales (2009).

No registrar recorded it for 37 years after 1971; it appears again in 2009.

Perpetua was ranked #310 in Republic of Ireland · Girls in 1966. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Alma#310
Anastatia#310
Bernadine#310
Blaithin#310
Antonia#344
Aveen#344
Beverley#344
Beverly#344

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1965 to 2017. Highest recorded position: #310 in Republic of Ireland in 1966. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Perpetua

Perpetua at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Perpetua across 2 official records

Popularity data

Where Perpetua is officially recorded

Names published alongside Perpetua

Perpetua at a glance

Perpetua across 2 official records

Names published alongside Perpetua