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Perri

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Perri is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 42 births. Its best rank was 950th, in 1958.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
420.00% of girls
Peak year
1958119 births
Best rank
#950in 1958
Since 1942
2,536people given the name
Babies named Perri, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

2,422 girls have been named Perri in the United States since 1942, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1958, with 119 births.

This is a comeback. After an early peak the name fell to a fraction of its former share, and it has been climbing again for the past decade.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1990, and the 1990s alone account for 18%. It has spent 1 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 114 boys have also been given it, 4.5% of the total.

Rank among girls, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)
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By decade

Decadegirls named Perri
1940s39
1950s373
1960s440
1970s129
1980s197
1990s444
2000s250
2010s359
2020s191

In 1958, its biggest year

Perri was the 950th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1958 were Mary, Susan, Linda, Karen and Patricia. See all of 1958.

Names that rose and fell with Perri

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.