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Girl Names That Start With P

These are the 48 girl names that start with P, have reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880, and still go to girls rather than boys today. Ranked by the number of girls given each name in 2025, most common first.

All 48 names

  1. Penelope #22 6,225
  2. Paisley #67 3,508
  3. Parker #106 2,536
  4. Piper #155 1,940
  5. Phoebe #157 1,885
  6. Peyton #199 1,559
  7. Presley #225 1,362
  8. Palmer #232 1,330
  9. Poppy #292 1,054
  10. Paige #346 884
  11. Payton #440 701
  12. Phoenix #533 567
  13. Priscilla #544 555
  14. Paris #592 497
  15. Paislee #666 423
  16. Penny #740 368
  17. Pearl #776 350
  18. Paulina #783 346
  19. Paula #853 318
  20. Paola #1258 178
  21. Patricia #1334 167
  22. Petra #1367 161
  23. Paulette #1534 138
  24. Perla #1587 132
  25. Philomena #1911 101
  26. Prudence #2099 89
  27. Pamela #2239 82
  28. Polly #2298 79
  29. Pauline #2957 56
  30. Precious #3130 51
  31. Phebe #5554 22
  32. Patsy #5917 20
  33. Peggy #8362 12
  34. Phyllis #11932 7
  35. Patti #13208 6
  36. Patrice #14942 5
  37. Patty #14942 5
  38. Pam
  39. Pansy
  40. Paralee
  41. Pat
  42. Pattie
  43. Pearle
  44. Pearlie
  45. Pearline
  46. Peggie
  47. Permelia
  48. Pinkie

Girl names that start with P in the 2025 data

P is the seventeenth most common first letter for girls born in 2025: 33,398 of them, 2.1% of every girl in the file. It has slipped from fourteenth place a decade ago, and its share has fallen from 2.4% to 2.1%.

This list holds the 48 of those names that reached the top 500 as a girl's name at some point since 1880 and are still given to girls rather than boys. The most common today is Penelope, #22 with 6,225 girls in 2025. 2 of the 48 are in this year's top 100, and 37 appear in the 2025 file at all — which takes at least five births, the point below which a name is left out. Together they account for 27,719 of those 33,398 girls — the remainder go to names that have never reached the top 500, each given to a handful of children.

The fastest climber among them is Palmer, up from #1,337 in 2015 to #232 in 2025. Payton has gone the other way, from #153 to #440. The shortest name here is Pam at 3 letters, the longest Priscilla at 9.

Questions about girl names that start with P

What is the most popular girl name that starts with P?

Penelope. 6,225 girls were given the name in 2025, which put it at #22 nationally.

How many girl names start with P?

48 have reached the top 500 as a girl's name and still go to girls today, which is this list. Counting every spelling in the file, 33,398 girls born in 2025 — 2.1% of the total — were given a name starting with P.

Are girl names that start with P getting more popular?

P is losing ground. It was fourteenth among first letters for girls a decade ago with 2.4% of births, and it is seventeenth in 2025 with 2.1%.

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