Perseus
Last seen for girls in 2016 at #12,876 · #1,204 for boys in 2025, 168 births
Given to boys 97.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 2025 · 168 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,390since 1983
Perseus over time
boys
Rank among boys' names. Perseus has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
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| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,204 | 168 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,275 | 154 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,465 | 123 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,414 | 130 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,424 | 128 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,518 | 110 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,582 | 105 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,687 | 93 | |
| 2017 | — | #2,345 | 55 | |
| 2016 | #12,876 | 7 | #2,145 | 64 |
| 2015 | — | #2,457 | 51 | |
| 2014 | — | #2,582 | 47 | |
| 2013 | — | #2,182 | 60 | |
| 2012 | #16,869 | 5 | #3,002 | 38 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #3,434 | 31 |
| 2010 | #16,992 | 5 | #5,251 | 17 |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | — | |
| 2008 | — | #12,553 | 5 | |
| 2007 | #17,636 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1983
The first year at least five boys were named Perseus! It came in at #5,484, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1984–2009, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
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Momentum · boys
Rising
- 71 spots since 2024 (#1,275 → #1,204)
- 314 spots since 2020 (#1,518 → #1,204)
- 1,253 spots since 2015 (#2,457 → #1,204)
Rise & fade · boys
42 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1983
- Peaked 2025 at #1,204 (168 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 10,167
- Highest: 1 in 10,167 boys born in 2025 were named Perseus (0.01%)
Era · boys
The 2020s
- 58.5% of all boys named Perseus (813) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1980s | 11 | #5,484 (1983) | #6,695 |
| 1990s | 0 | — | — |
| 2000s | 5 | #12,553 (2008) | #12,553 |
| 2010s | 561 | #1,582 (2019) | #2,667 |
| 2020s | 813 | #1,204 (2025) | #1,383 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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