Parthenia
Parthenia is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 5 births. Its best rank was 651st, in 1886.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 50.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 192328 births
- Best rank
- #651in 1886
- Since 1880
- 1,447people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,447 girls have been named Parthenia in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1923, with 28 births.
The name has all but left use: 5 births in 2024, against 28 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1920s alone account for 14%. It has spent 11 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Parthenia | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 72 | |
| 1890s | 79 | |
| 1900s | 98 | |
| 1910s | 182 | |
| 1920s | 198 | |
| 1930s | 172 | |
| 1940s | 170 | |
| 1950s | 184 | |
| 1960s | 110 | |
| 1970s | 67 | |
| 1980s | 16 | |
| 1990s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 75 | |
| 2020s | 19 |
In 1923, its biggest year
Parthenia was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1923 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Margaret and Betty. See all of 1923.
Names that rose and fell with Parthenia
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Minervapeak 1955
- Corneliapeak 1921
- Florapeak 1920
- Melvinapeak 1920
- Susiepeak 1919
- Theodosiapeak 1918
- Anniepeak 1922
- Rosapeak 1925
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.