Entry № 8095 · Latin origin

Perpetua Perpetua — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ per-PET-yoo-ah /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Latin
Meaning
"Everlasting, eternal"
Syllables
3
First recorded
Ancient (Latin)

A name that means "everlasting, eternal".

Perpetua is rare but distinctive.

Everlasting, eternal — a Latin name.

The name in its native script.

Perpetua
Transliteration
Perpetua
Pronunciation
/ pərˈpɛt.juː.ə /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Perpetua stands.

Perpetua does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Perpetuas before her.

Real people
Saint Perpetua
Carthaginian Christian martyr.
c. 182 – 203 CE
In fiction
Perpetua
Common in Catholic literature.

Names connected to Perpetua.

The number behind Perpetua.

3

The Communicator

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Perpetua reduce to 3, The Communicator. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.