Given name
Perdita
“a lost woman”
Perdita is used as a given name. One Latin interpretation is “a lost woman.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Latin interpretation is “a lost woman.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Latin.
The story
A heroine in a Shakespeare play bears this name.
Perdita through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 31
- 0 boys · 31 girls
- Most popular year
- 1955
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for girls is 5 in 1971. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for girls was 8 in 1955. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 146 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Perdita’s family of names
In English usage, Perdita has a diminutive in Perdie. Perdita has a related form in Perdea. Perdita has a related form in Perdeata.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Perdita has relatives in 12 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
11 related names in 12 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 9
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
- Perdiediminutive · English
- Perdeatavariant
- Perdeetavariant
- Perdeavariant
- Perdeevariant
- Perdivariant
- Perdyvariant
- Perdittavariant
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Across languages 10
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- ПердітаUkrainian
- ПердитаRussian, Bulgarian
- PerdytaPolish
- PērditaLatvian
- ペルディータJapanese
- PerdítaIcelandic
- ΠερδιταGreek
- PerditoEsperanto
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See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Perdita
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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