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Peri

#5,666 in 2025Girls' name

Form of Pari

Peri has been given to 2,475 babies in the U.S. since 1936. In 2025 it ranked #5,666 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1960, with 92 recorded.

Babies named Peri, 2025

1 in 151,000

Peri over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Peri: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Pari

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Peri means

Peri is a form of Pari.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Peri → Pari. The family’s meaning is “fairy, sprite, nymph”, recorded in the naming reference for Pari.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pari.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,465 girls were recorded with the name Peri between 1936 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 92 in 1960; its best national rank was #1,135 in 1960.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #3,825 in 2020 to #5,666 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,830 in 2015 to #5,666 in 2025.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Peri between 1959 and 1960. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1959; its best national rank was #4,420 in 1959.

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.

How common is Peri?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 151,000
22 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 73,100
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,666
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
104,451 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Peri sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

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 104,451 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Peri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Peris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Peri was born before 1996 — so the typical Peri is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
20.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
38.9%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,425
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 20.2% of all recorded uses (499).

Is Peri 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
−262
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−1,841
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,836
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.55×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
23.9%
Peak was 1960 (92)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,135
1960

Spellings of Peri

Peri is not the most common spelling — Lori is, with 18.2% against Peri's 0.13%.

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 Peri is used

Across 1910–2025, Peri was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 124,714 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 100,000
  4. 4Colorado1 in —
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Maryland1 in —
  8. 8Michigan1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Peri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Peri around the world

Where Peri 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
    #3,035
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1999–2019
    #3,370
    in 2019
  • South Australia
    1951–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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.

Notable people named Peri

People whose public names include Peri, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Peri by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,666
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 1,841
Best rank ever
#1,135
1960
Peak year
1960
92 that year
First recorded
1936
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,465
Count in 2025
22

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,420
1959
Peak year
1959
5 that year
First recorded
1959
Last recorded
1960
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Peri

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

PerriPerryMeriPerlPerelEmeriPercyPersiaKateriPerlaPersisValeriPerrinAveriPerriePeraJeriEriNeriGeriSeriKeriAmeriTeri

Names with a curve like Peri

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Peri, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

MoiraAnetteMyriamKimberlynLeslyeSilvanaBronwynSindyDariaBrigidKatharinaMarygrace

Sibling names for Peri

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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