Permelia
Permelia reached its high-water mark in 1918 at number 1,887, and has been recorded 551 times in all. It has not appeared in the national data since 1963. About 90 Permelias are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 78.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Permelia
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 551
- Estimated living today
- 90
- Median age today
- 78
- Peak year
- 1918
- Best rank
- 1,887th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
How old the living Permelias are
born that year still alive today
Of the 551 babies given the name since 1880, about 90 are alive — 16 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1947 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Names of 1918
The most popular girls’ names the year Permelia peaked:
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Permelia against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.