Baby name
STABLE
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 Persephone
/per · SEF · uh · nee/
Meaning
“Possibly destroyer or corn thresher”
Ancient Greek name of uncertain, probably pre-Greek origin. Possibly related to Greek words meaning 'to destroy' and 'murder', or alternatively from an Indo-European root for 'sheaf of corn', giving the sense 'thresher of corn'. In Greek mythology, Persephone was the goddess of the underworld and of spring growth, daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
Nicknames
seph · sephy · percy
Vibe
mysteriousdramatic
How it ages.
Mythological and distinctive - a name with deep literary roots but still very rare as a first name.
The cultural moment.
Ranked #520 in England and Wales and #734 in the United States in 2025; still uncommon but established as a given name.