Peretz

#6,068 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Perez

Peretz has been given to 154 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #6,068 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 16 recorded.

Babies named Peretz, 2025

1 in 221,000

Peretz over time, 1880–2025

Boys

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Peretz: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Perez

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Peretz means

Peretz is a form of Perez.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Peretz → Perez. The family’s meaning is “breach, burst forth”, recorded in the naming reference for Perez.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Perez.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 154 boys were recorded with the name Peretz between 1987 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 16 in 2016; its best national rank was #5,722 in 2016.

Over 10 years its rank rose, from #6,222 in 2015 to #6,068 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

U.S. Social Security Administration: national name data and limitations

How common is Peretz?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 221,000; 15 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 114,000; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #6,068; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 153,194 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Peretz 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 153,194 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Peretz. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Peretzs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Peretz was born before 2017 — so the typical Peretz is around 8 today.

Median birth year: 2017; About 8 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 55.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 96.8%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 154; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 55.2% of all recorded uses (85).

Is Peretz 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: +2,096; Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: +154; Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago: 1.07×; More babies than then
Share of its own peak: 93.8%; Peak was 2016 (16)
Years since peak: 9; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 41.5% average annual change
Best rank ever: #5,722; 2016

Spellings of Peretz

Peretz is not the most common spelling — Perez is, with 79.3% against Peretz's 20.7%.

Perez79.3%591
Peretz20.7%154

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Peretz is used

Across 1910–2025, Peretz was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 266,477 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1New York1 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. Peretz has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Peretz by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #6,068
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #5,722; 2016
Peak year: 2016; 16 that year
First recorded: 1987
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 154
Count in 2025: 15

Names similar to Peretz

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

Perrion Perris Peregrin Perlie Pericles Perez Perri Perrin Percie Perrie Perle Percey Perkins Perfect Perseus Peregrine Pervis Perman Perley Percel Perryn Perl Perla Pernell

Sibling names for Peretz

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

For a sister

Annabell Karleigh Adelle Kendyl Anabel Hayleigh Shaniya Jazmyne

For a brother

Hamilton Caesar Brennen Kale Tobin Jerimiah Aaden Jorden

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