Perséus

given name · Latin script

Perséus is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: From Ancient Greek Περσεύς (Perseús).

United States (inferred from the name graph)

no count published

Sources
1 (measured from records)

Community-sourced

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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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(measured from records)

From Ancient Greek Περσεύς (Perseús).

Sources 1

Where in the world(measured from records)

Perséus counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Where Perséus is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spelling
US United States—168—
NL Netherlands—5—
CA Canada—3—
AT Austria—3—
DM Dominica—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: SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Perséus is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Perseus

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Perseus

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

150200250300350Perseus, b. 150Perseus of Macedon, b. 212Persaeus, b. 306
  • Perseusb. 150ancient Greek geometer
  • Perseus of Macedonb. 212GRKing of Macedonia from 179 to 168 BC
  • Persaeusb. 306CYnot in their usual nameancient Greek philosopher
  • PerseusGreek painter, 4th century BCE, student of Apelles

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Perséus under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Perséus mean, and where does it come from?
From Ancient Greek Περσεύς (Perseús). Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Perséus a male or female name?
Perséus is a male 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 Perséus have the most bearers?
Perséus is most frequently recorded in the United States.

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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/pers%C3%A9us

The 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, “Perséus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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