Penelope comes from the Greek pēnē (πήνη), meaning the threads on a loom — "weaver." In Homer's Odyssey, Penelope is the wife of Odysseus, who waited twenty years for her husband's return while staving off 108 suitors with a cunning trick: she promised to choose a new husband when she finished weaving a burial shroud for her father-in-law, and unwove her day's work every night.
Penelope has been used since antiquity as a symbol of faithfulness and patient intelligence. Its modern revival is striking — once considered impossibly old-fashioned, it climbed into the U.S. top 25 in the 2010s, helped along by Kourtney Kardashian's daughter and a broader return of long classical names.
Penelope reduces to three — the number of expression, creativity, and warmth.