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Peregrine

#3,358 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Foreigner

Peregrine has been given to 461 babies in the U.S. since 1998. In 2025 it ranked #3,358 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 36 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 70% boys, 30% girls all-time.

Babies named Peregrine, 2025

1 in 94,700

Peregrine over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Peregrine over time

In 2025, Peregrine went to 24% girls and 76% boys.

19982025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Peregrine: meaning, origin, and history

Foreigner

Latin

What Peregrine means

Peregrine means “foreigner”, associated with peregrinus.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Saint's name from Latin Peregrinus, from peregrinus (“foreigner”).

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Peregrine (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Peregrine is used in English. Its origins include Latin.

Peregrine comes through Latin Peregrinus.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 322 boys were recorded with the name Peregrine between 1998 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 36 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,320 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,705 in 2020 to #3,358 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #5,918 in 2015 to #3,358 in 2025.

In the United States, 139 girls were recorded with the name Peregrine between 2011 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 2022; its best national rank was #6,399 in 2022.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #7,480 in 2020 to #9,315 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #12,721 in 2015 to #9,315 in 2025.

How common is Peregrine?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 94,700
35 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 48,800
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,358
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
65,655 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Peregrine sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 65,655 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Peregrine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Peregrines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Peregrine was born before 2020 — so the typical Peregrine is around 5 today.

Median birth year
2020
About 5 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
54.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
322
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 54.7% of all recorded uses (176).

Is Peregrine rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−38
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+347
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,560
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
2.33×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
97.2%
Peak was 2024 (36)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,320
2024

Where Peregrine is used

Across 1910–2025, Peregrine was most concentrated in Washington — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 476,992 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Washington1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Peregrine has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Peregrine around the world

Where Peregrine ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,275
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #2,944
    in 2017
  • South Australia
    1963–1963
    #563
    in 1963

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Peregrine by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,358
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 347
Best rank ever
#3,320
2024
Peak year
2024
36 that year
First recorded
1998
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
322
Count in 2025
35

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#9,315
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,835
Best rank ever
#6,399
2022
Peak year
2022
19 that year
First recorded
2011
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
139
Count in 2025
11

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Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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