Perrine

Girls' name

Stone, rock, through Pierre

Perrine has been given to 24 babies in the U.S. since 1919. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1980, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Perrine, 2018

1 in 586,000

Perrine over time, 1880–2025

Girls

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Perrine: meaning, origin, and history

Stone, rock, through Pierre

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Perrine means

Perrine belongs to the name family reached through Perrine → Pierre. Its meaning is “stone, rock”.

Origin, language, and formation

Perrine is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pierre.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Perrine is pronounced /pɛ.ʁin/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 24 girls were recorded with the name Perrine between 1919 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1980; its best national rank was #4,690 in 1919.

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.

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How common is Perrine?

Perrine had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018: 1 in 586,000; 6 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only: 1 in 283,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018: Unranked; Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size: 406,284 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Perrine 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 2018 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 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Perrine. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Perrines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Perrine was born before 1980 — so the typical Perrine is around 45 today.

Median birth year: 1980; About 45 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 45.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 45.8%; Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950: 18; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (11).

Is Perrine 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: —; Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago: New entry; Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago: —; Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago: —; Not published both years
Share of its own peak: 0%; Peak was 1980 (7)
Years since peak: 45; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Not enough data; Too few years
Best rank ever: #4,690; 1919

Spellings of Perrine

Perrine is not the most common spelling — Corrine is, with 26.0% against Perrine's 0.03%.

Corrine26.0%20,831
Terrie24.6%19,729
Kerrie10.7%8,589
Pearline7.8%6,262
Jerrie6.6%5,251
Merrie3.3%2,632
Perri3.1%2,448
Petrina2.6%2,107

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.

Perrine around the world

Where Perrine 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.

France
1900–2025
#1,055
in 2025
Canada
2002–2002
#2,580
in 2002

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Perrine by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: —
Best rank ever: #4,690; 1919
Peak year: 1980; 7 that year
First recorded: 1919
Last recorded: 2018
All-time count: 24
Count in 2025: Under 5

Names similar to Perrine

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

Peregrine Perline Perfect Perseis Mclaine Perlean Edaline Perdita Periann Perseus Perette Perlina Maxxine Perlena Pertina Perfecta Perola Persayis Perlene Adiline Percie Perley Persaius Anyeline

Sibling names for Perrine

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

Charissa Sharonda Shameka Darci Tosha Candi Siobhan Starla

For a brother

Leopoldo Jerod Wilfredo Antwan Ashley Delvin Chauncey Kareem

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