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Persephone

Meaning not yet sourced

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1962, with 6 babies

CommonRare
Rank 2015: #1,329, 2016: #1,241, 2017: #1,114, 2018: #1,075, 2019: #922, 2020: #818, 2021: #775, 2022: #681, 2023: #745, 2024: #735, 2025: #7341 in 4,321 girls in the US, 2025#734 · rising · was #1,329 in 2015
CommonRare
Rank 2015: #809, 2016: #916, 2017: #933, 2018: #864, 2019: #897, 2020: #589, 2021: #640, 2022: #550, 2023: #558, 2024: #610, 2025: #5201 in 3,289 girls in E&W, 2025#520 · rising · was #809 in 2015

Girl’s name · Greek · /pəˈsɛfəni/

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What Persephone means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Persephone yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note First shows up in US records in 1962, with 6 babies Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Persephone?

US 2025
#734
372 babies
▲ 1 vs 2024
England & Wales 2025
#520
77 babies
▲ 90 vs 2024
Scotland
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Not listed

US: Rising: up from #1329 in 2015. England & Wales: Rising: up from #809 in 2015.

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US, 1880–2025England & Wales, 1996–2025Babies per 1,000 girls born. Dot: biggest US share (2022)

Biggest US share so far: 2022, when 429 girls got the name (#681 that year). First in the US records in 1962.

How common

  • About 1 in 4,321 baby girls in the US in 2025
  • About 1 in 3,289 baby girls in England and Wales in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in AK (3.63 per 1,000 girls), NM (1.07 per 1,000 girls), NV (0.87 per 1,000 girls) in 2025.

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FewerMore · grey: under 5 babies, not listed

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed girls born in each state.

US vs UK

Persephone is #734 in the US and #520 in England & Wales (2025).

Rank 2025BabiesHow commonRank 2015
US#7343721 in 4,321#1329
England & Wales#520771 in 3,289#809
Scotland––––

Same sex as this page (girls). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Persephone were girls.

GirlsBoys
US 20253720
England & Wales 2025770
US all years since 18804,9600
England & Wales since 19968630

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

How to say it

UK/pəˈsɛfəni/
US/pɚˈsɛfəniː/

IPA from Wiktionary.

If you like Persephone

Girls

  • Zara#212“flower”
  • Elaina#267Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #267 vs #951 in 2025
  • Athena#109Editor’s note Up from #157 in 2015 to #109 in 2025 in the US
  • Penelope#22possibly “duck”
  • Phoebe#157“bright”
  • Cora#113“maiden”

For a brother

  • Azariah#472“Yah Has Helped”
  • Orion#334possibly “heaven's light”
  • Solomon#422“peace”
  • Isaias#426Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #426 vs #3,256 in 2025
  • Damian#109“to tame”
  • Theo#82Editor’s note Climbing fast in the US: #405 in 2015, #82 in 2025

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Greek, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Persephone’s. Rank is US 2025.

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