Persais
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Persais has been given to 90 babies in the U.S. since 2005. 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 2013, with 12 recorded.
Babies named Persais, 2017
1 in 715,000
Persais over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Persais?
Persais had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2017, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2017
- 1 in 715,000
- 5 of 3,577,106 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 345,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2017
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 495,893 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Persais sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2017 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 495,893 children born in 2017 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Persais. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Persaiss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Persais was born before 2010 — so the typical Persais is around 15 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2010s
- 52.2% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 90
- People you could plausibly meet
2010s — 52.2% of all recorded uses (47).
Is Persais 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 2013 (12)
- Years since peak
- 12
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.3% average annual change
Spellings of Persais
Persais is not the most common spelling — Persia is, with 54.3% against Persais's 6.2%.
Persais by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Persais
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Persais
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.