Pericles
Meaning
“Greek for surrounded by glory; famously borne by Pericles, the Athenian general who led the city through its Golden Age.”
Popularity, 1890–2024
Shape drawn from US Social Security baby-name records. Pericles has stayed rare in US records the whole time: no peak decade to name.
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Popularity in Brazil
5,711 people · the #2,497 first name in Brazil · about 1 in 35,714 · median age 41
Among people named Pericles living in Brazil at the 2022 census, more were born in the 1980s than in any other decade.
The census also counted 57 born between 2020 and August 2022, too recent a span to chart.
Source: IBGE, Censo Demográfico 2022
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