Pervis
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Pervis has been given to 878 babies in the U.S. since 1892. 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 1965, with 21 recorded.
Babies named Pervis, 2002
1 in 747,000
Pervis 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Pervis?
Pervis had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2002, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2002
- 1 in 747,000
- 5 of 3,737,275 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 388,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2002
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 518,097 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Pervis sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2002 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 518,097 children born in 2002 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pervis. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Perviss were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Pervis was born before 1953 — so the typical Pervis is around 72 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 15.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 14.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 481
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 15.4% of all recorded uses (135).
Is Pervis 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 1965 (21)
- Years since peak
- 60
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 44.7% average annual change
Spellings of Pervis
Pervis is not the most common spelling — Ervin is, with 35.3% against Pervis's 0.79%.
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 Pervis is used
Across 1910–2025, Pervis was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 665,724 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in —
- 2Louisiana1 in —
- 3Mississippi1 in —
- 4North Carolina1 in —
- 5South Carolina1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys 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. Pervis has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Pervis by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Pervis
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Pervis
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.