Perseus
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Perseus is a given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in the United States. Recorded meaning: The mythological Greek warrior who slew the Gorgon Medusa by decapitating her.
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)
The mythological Greek warrior who slew the Gorgon Medusa by decapitating her. He married Andromeda after rescuing her from Ceto and founded Mycenae. He was the son of Zeus and Danae.
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Perseus counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Perseus is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, constellation; pers. name
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In English, mythological Greek hero;
as a namePronouncing Dictionary of Proper Names
In Latin, Perseus (son of Jupiter and Danae, killed Medusa and rescued Andromeda)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Latvian, Persejs, debess ziemeļu puslodes zvaigznājs
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Perseusb. 150ancient Greek geometer
- Perseus of Macedonb. 212GRKing of Macedonia from 179 to 168 BC
- Persaeusb. 306CYnot in their usual nameancient Greek philosopher
- Laurens Perseus Hickokb. 1798USAmerican philosopher (1798–1888)
- 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)
Attested in 14 sources across 9 countries.
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Perseus a male or female name?
- Perseus 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.
- What does the name Perseus mean?
- Recorded meaning: The mythological Greek warrior who slew the Gorgon Medusa by decapitating her.
- Where does the name Perseus come from?
- The mythological Greek warrior who slew the Gorgon Medusa by decapitating her. He married Andromeda after rescuing her from Ceto and founded Mycenae. He was the son of Zeus and Danae. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Perseus have the most bearers?
- Perseus is most frequently recorded in the United States.
What do you want to know about Perseus?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/perseusThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Perseus”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.