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Perry

Pronounced /ˈpɛɹi/

Rank in 2024
#1,239
Born in 2024
160
Peak year
1959 · #132
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:104 in 2024 (#1,910)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 160 boys were named Perry, about 1 in every 10,721.
  • It peaked in 1959 with 2,750 babies, ranked #132.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 75,908 boys have been named Perry since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Perry per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.5
    Greatest
  2. 0.5
    Silent
  3. 0.8
    Boomers
  4. 0.4
    Gen X
  5. 0.2
    Millennials
  6. 0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 9,170 babies, 0.55 per 1,000. Silent: 10,450 babies, 0.51 per 1,000. Boomers: 30,862 babies, 0.82 per 1,000. Gen X: 11,082 babies, 0.41 per 1,000. Millennials: 6,886 babies, 0.23 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,382 babies, 0.11 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,690 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

  • A unisex given name.
  • A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
  • A diminutive of the unisex given name Peregrine.
Origin
Not recorded
Say it
/ˈpɛɹi/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Perry, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Pierre

    Rank
    #1,245
    Born '24
    158
    Origin
    French
    1880peak 19882024