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Perri

#5,063 in 2025Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Perri has been given to 2,562 babies in the U.S. since 1942. In 2025 it ranked #5,063 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1958, with 119 recorded.

Babies named Perri, 2025

1 in 128,000

Perri over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
05010015018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Perri: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Perri means

Perri is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Perri is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,448 girls were recorded with the name Perri between 1942 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 119 in 1958; its best national rank was #949 in 1958.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,420 in 2020 to #5,063 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #3,582 in 2015 to #5,063 in 2025.

In the United States, 114 boys were recorded with the name Perri between 1957 and 2012. Its highest annual count was 17 in 1960; its best national rank was #2,019 in 1960.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Perri?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 128,000
26 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 61,800
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#5,063
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
88,382 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Perri 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 88,382 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Perri. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Perris were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Perri was born before 1991 — so the typical Perri is around 34 today.

Median birth year
1991
About 34 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
18.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,409
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 18.1% of all recorded uses (444).

Is Perri 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
−1,382
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−643
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−1,481
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.59×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
21.8%
Peak was 1958 (119)
Years since peak
67
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#949
1958

Spellings of Perri

Perri is not the most common spelling — Pearl is, with 18.0% against Perri's 0.28%.

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 Perri is used

Across 1910–2025, Perri was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 157,002 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New Jersey1 in 100,000
  3. 3New York1 in 100,000
  4. 4Texas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Florida1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Indiana1 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. Perri has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Perri around the world

Where Perri 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1995–2020
    #636
    in 2020
  • Canada
    2019–2020
    #3,347
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1951–2012
    #871
    in 2012

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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 Perri

People whose public names include Perri, 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.

Perri in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Perri. Linked forms have their own page here.

Perry

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Perri by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#5,063
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 643
Best rank ever
#949
1958
Peak year
1958
119 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,448
Count in 2025
26

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,019
1960
Peak year
1960
17 that year
First recorded
1957
Last recorded
2012
All-time count
114
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Perri

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

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Names with a curve like Perri

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

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Sibling names for Perri

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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