Perseverance
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Perseverance is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country.
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 50Kfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 22Kfew records
- ZWZimbabwe≈1 in 36Kfew records
carrying the name, as Mondonomo estimates it from our sources: no national register counts it in these countries. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 20 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 22K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Congo - Kinshasa, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure.
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Perseverance counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈5,000 est. | ≈1 in 22K | Perseverance | 3 |
| ZA South Africa | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 50K | Perseverance | 17 |
| ZW Zimbabwe | ≈470 est. | ≈1 in 36K | Perseverance | 5 |
| NG Nigeria | ≈190 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | Perseverance | 9 |
| US United States | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 61M | Perseverance | 19 |
| AU Australia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 11M | Perseverance | 8 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Perseverance is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, no, noma
as a wordVocabulary of the Mende Language
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Perseverance mean, and where does it come from?
- Continuing in a course of action without regard to discouragement, opposition or previous failure. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Perseverance a male or female name?
- Perseverance is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
- Which countries have the most people named Perseverance?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.0 thousand people named Perseverance in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled perseverance. After it come South Africa, Zimbabwe, Nigeria and United States; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Perseverance?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5,000 people in Congo - Kinshasa have Perseverance as their first given name, about 1 in 22 thousand residents. No national register counts it there; the figure is ours, calibrated against the registers that do.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/perseveranceThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Perseverance”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.