Pelagia

Last seen for girls in 2019 at #15,539

Peak · girls
1886 · 6 births
Debut · girls
6 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
91
since 1886

Pelagia over time

girls

Rank among girls' names. Pelagia has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201886peak #993, 1886girls
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
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2019#15,5395
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2017#15,9025
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2015#14,4826
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1928#4,7255
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1925#4,4266
1924#5,0615
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1918#3,2449
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1916#2,83310
1915#4,2745
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1913#2,5407
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1907#2,0615
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1898#1,7005
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1893#1,1757
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1886#9936
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First appearance
1886

The first year at least five girls were named Pelagia! It came in at #993, and was given to 6 baby girls.


Quietest stretch: 1887–1892, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.

See more about Pelagia
Momentum · girls
Faded out
  • Not published in 2025; last seen 2019
Rise & fade · girls
Peaked on debut
  • Debuted 1886
  • Peaked 1886 at #993 (6 births)
  • Births halved by 1887, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · girls
Top 1,000 for 1 yr
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 1 yr · 1886
Share of babies · girls
1 in 24,089
  • Highest: 1 in 24,089 girls born in 1886 were named Pelagia (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 335,673 girls born in 2019 (0.00%)
Era · girls
The 1910s
  • 34.1% of all girls named Pelagia (31) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1880s6#993 (1886)#993
1890s12#1,175 (1893)#1,438
1900s5#2,061 (1907)#2,061
1910s31#2,540 (1913)#3,223
1920s16#4,426 (1925)#4,737
1930s0
1940s0
1950s0
1960s0
1970s5#9,652 (1977)#9,652
1980s0
1990s0
2000s0
2010s16#14,482 (2015)#15,308

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Pelagia in 1886

girls
#993
6 births · 1 in 24,089 girls

Top girls' names in 1886

  1. #1Mary9,889
  2. #2Anna4,283
  3. #3Emma2,764
  4. #4Elizabeth2,680
  5. #5Minnie2,372
  6. #6Margaret2,275
  7. #7Ida2,049
  8. #8Bertha2,001
  9. #9Clara1,916
  10. #10Florence1,860
  11. #993Pelagia6
More about 1886

girls

144,533 girls got a published name in 1886; 1 in 24,089 of them was named Pelagia, which outranked 22.5% of the 1,282 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 22.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Pelagia
  1. #897Yetta7
  2. #897Zelpha7
  3. #897Zina7
  4. #993Pelagia6
  5. #993Aggie6
  6. #993Albert6
  7. #993Alwilda6
  8. #1,108Aida5
  9. #1,108Albertine5
  10. #1,108Almyra5

Tied with 114 names at #993; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1885
Risers
  1. 441Felicia#1,047#606
  2. 414Arminda#1,047#633
  3. 414Fronie#1,047#633
  4. 390Zettie#1,047#657
  5. 365Vergie#921#556
Fallers
  1. 532Cordia#576#1,108
  2. 532Dicie#576#1,108
  3. 532Johnie#576#1,108
  4. 500Philomene#608#1,108
  5. 479Malissie#629#1,108

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1886