Perpetue
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/pɛʁpty/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Perpetue is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Congo - Kinshasa than in any other country. In Congo - Brazzaville it is the 97th most common given name.
- CGCongo - Brazzaville≈1 in 6.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- RWRwanda≈1 in 19K
- CDCongo - Kinshasa≈1 in 21K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Congo - Kinshasa (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 60 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈4,900 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Congo - Brazzaville, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Perpetue 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 | #600 | ≈4,900 est. | ≈1 in 21K | — | Perpetue | 5 |
| CM Cameroon | #974 | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 22K | — | Perpetue | 4 |
| CG Congo - Brazzaville | #97 | ≈800 est. | ≈1 in 6.7K | — | Perpetue | 3 |
| RW Rwanda | #511 | ≈680 est. | ≈1 in 19K | — | Perpetue | 2 |
| FR France | — | ≈75 est. | ≈1 in 903K | 20 | Perpetue | 60 |
| GA Gabon | — | ≈21 est. | ≈1 in 108K | 2 | Perpetue | 4 |
| PL Poland | — | 2 | 1 in 19M | 2 | — | — |
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.
Registers cited: INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
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)
Perpetue is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latin, perpetually, constantly, continuously
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Italian, feminine plural of perpetuo
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Portuguese, inflection of perpetuar:
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
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.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 8 sources across 6 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024) | 1949 | 20 | #809 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 2 | #25,387 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 2 | #25,388 |
| GA Gabon | Ministere de l'Interieur — 2025 candidate lists (local + legislative) | 2025 | 2 | #94 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Perpetue?
- A machine transcription gives /pɛʁpty/ (IPA) for French.
- Is Perpetue a male or female name?
- Perpetue is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Perpetue have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 4.9 thousand people named Perpetue in Congo - Kinshasa, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled perpetue.
- How common is the name Perpetue?
- In Poland, the national register counted 2 people named Perpetue in 2026, about 1 in 19 million residents.
- How common is Perpetue compared with other names?
- In Congo - Kinshasa, Perpetue is the 600th most common given name of 20,652 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Perpetue?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/perpetueThe 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, “Perpetue” — the 600th most common given name in Congo - Kinshasa. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.