Persis

#16,676 in 2025Girls' name

A Persian woman

Persis has been given to 572 babies in the U.S. since 1884. In 2025 it ranked #16,676 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1918, with 19 recorded.

Babies named Persis, 2025

1 in 663,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Persis: meaning, origin, and history

A Persian woman

Ancient Greek

What Persis means

Persis means “a Persian woman”, associated with Persís.

Origin, language, and formation

Persis is used in English. Its origins include Ancient Greek.

Persis comes through Ancient Greek Περσίς.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 572 girls were recorded with the name Persis between 1884 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1918; its best national rank was #1,003 in 1884.

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 Persis?

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

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 663,000; 5 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only: 1 in 321,000; <0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025: #16,676; of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 459,581 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Persis 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Persis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Persiss were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Persis was born before 1921 — so the typical Persis is around 104 today.

Median birth year: 1921; About 104 years old
Biggest decade: 1920s; 23.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 7.3%; Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950: 86; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

1920s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (132).

Is Persis 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: 26.3%; Peak was 1918 (19)
Years since peak: 107; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Shifting; 19.4% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,003; 1884

Spellings of Persis

Persis is not the most common spelling — Paris is, with 67.3% against Persis's 1.1%.

Paris67.3%33,663
Eris5.6%2,805
Versie5.2%2,598
Peri4.9%2,465
Perri4.9%2,448
Aeris3.7%1,861
Parris3.3%1,669
Persia1.6%786

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 Persis is used

Across 1910–2025, Persis was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 397,002 across all states with data.

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State popularity map

Most concentrated

1Massachusetts1 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. Persis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Persis around the world

Where Persis 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
2009–2014
#5,691
in 2014

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Persis by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025: #16,676
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: New entry
Best rank ever: #1,003; 1884
Peak year: 1918; 19 that year
First recorded: 1884
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 572
Count in 2025: 5

Names similar to Persis

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

Perrin Persia Perrie Percy Perel Perlie Perl Pernie Perri Jenasis Genisis Perpetua Perlita Perry Oasis Pernell Perris Percilla Permelia Perle Peri Perline Perina Jenisis

Sibling names for Persis

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

Johnie Maurine Tressie Mozelle Hester Leone Alene Vina

For a brother

Granville Lyman Waldo Dewitt Regis Barney Winfield Alva

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