Penelope
1.13k
Babies in 2024
+97%
10-year change
2022
Peak · 1.21k
-2%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Penelope
Penelope is one of the more popular UK girls' names in the latest ONS data, ranked #36 for girls born in 2024 with 1,133 babies registered in England & Wales.
Penelope reached its peak in 2022, when 1,206 girls were registered in England & Wales — ranked #32 for UK girls that year. Today's count is broadly in line with the peak.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 13,109 girls have been officially registered with the name Penelope in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 11,333 girls were registered with the name, starting from 575 in 2014 and ending at 1,133 in 2024.