MEANING & HISTORY
What does Perfecta mean?
Perfecta is a Spanish personal name corresponding to the feminine adjective perfecta and the Perfectus name family. Latin perfectus concerns completion or accomplishment.
The older semantic range is broader than a modern demand for flawlessness. The grammatical feminine form supplies the name’s shape, while the lexical meaning is not an assessment of any bearer’s conduct.
References for this explanation
Pronunciation & syllables
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Origin and name formation
Language-specific accounts from the dictionary. A shared spelling can have more than one history.
CebuanoEtymology & source
a female given name
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Use in Philippine-linked records
Public-record transcription
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eligible source records · 2001
This spelling is reported in an openly licensed transcription of elected-candidate records. This is a record count, not a birth count or national popularity measure.
OpenHalalan / COMELEC ↗PSA · OFFICIAL BIRTH RECORDS
Perfecta in the birth records
Exact spelling and stated year in the published name tables. Read the counts as individual snapshots.
Tables included: 2016, 2017, 2018, 2020, 2022, 2023 and 2024. The 2016 fact sheet lists five names per sex; the later tables include ten. Missing counts are not inferred. Sex categories follow the official tables, independently of dictionary gender labels. Explore the official tables →
Similar names to Perfecta
Names with a similar opening or ending, ordered by spelling distance. Similar spelling does not imply the same meaning or origin.
Names in this collection
- Perfecto♂Completed, achieved, or perfected
- Perlita♀Diminutive of Perla; little or dear pearl
- Perpetua♀Continuous or perpetual
- Pedrita·As a Portuguese word: a small stone, a diminutive of pedra
- Pepita·Spanish affectionate form of Josefa
- Perla♀Pearl
- Perpetuo·As a Spanish word: lasting forever
- Pedot♂Familiar form recorded for Pedro and Alfredo
What rhymes with Perfecta?
No dictionary-confirmed rhyme match is available for this spelling in the current catalogue.
Explore Perfecta further
Follow the sources
- OpenHalalan — pinned 2001 COMELEC transcription (opens in a new tab)
Source-reported given-name form in a row with a separate explicit middle initial; ODbL-1.0.
- COMELEC — 2001 List of Elected Candidates (opens in a new tab)
Original document identified by the transcription; selected PDF entries were spot-checked, not every imported row.
- Wiktionary contributors — Perfecta (Cebuano) (opens in a new tab)
Explicit given-name sense and separately attributed etymology; no birth-frequency claim.
- Wiktionary: Perfecta (opens in a new tab)
Personal-name formation and etymological relationships; imported dictionary account consulted.
- Wiktionary: Perfectus (opens in a new tab)
Explicit parent or lexical step in the documented formation; the exact local relationship is cited separately.
- Guía Infantil: Perfecta (2011) (opens in a new tab)
Exact feminine of Perfecto, from Latin Perfectus/Perfecta; only formation used, not unrelated bearer examples.
- Real Academia Española: perfecto, perfecta (opens in a new tab)
Latin perfectus and complete/accomplished adjective meanings.