Percell
Percell was last recorded in 2004, when 5 babies were given it; 1,064 Americans have been recorded with it between 1907 and 2004 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Percell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Percell?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #12,728, in 2004; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1953, the peak
Percell peaked in 1953, when 27 boys were given it, #1,472 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | 5 | #12,728 | 2.5 |
| 2001 | 5 | #11,847 | 2.6 |
| 2000 | 6 | #10,001 | 3.1 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,123 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,810 | 4.1 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,975 | 3.0 |
| 1990 | 9 | #5,692 | 4.4 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,261 | 3.7 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,822 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,738 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 8 | #5,030 | 4.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,802 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,887 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 6 | #6,041 | 3.3 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,832 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 10 | #4,003 | 5.8 |
| 1977 | 8 | #4,473 | 4.9 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,924 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,378 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 9 | #3,622 | 5.8 |
| 1972 | 9 | #3,533 | 5.6 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,297 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 10 | #3,219 | 5.4 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,843 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 20 | #1,817 | 11.5 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,466 | 4.0 |
| 1966 | 17 | #1,945 | 9.5 |
| 1965 | 13 | #2,342 | 7.0 |
| 1964 | 16 | #2,093 | 8.0 |
| 1963 | 15 | #2,178 | 7.4 |
| 1962 | 16 | #2,095 | 7.7 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,846 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 16 | #2,100 | 7.5 |
| 1959 | 22 | #1,749 | 10.3 |
| 1958 | 18 | #1,941 | 8.5 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,350 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 24 | #1,633 | 11.3 |
| 1955 | 25 | #1,566 | 12.1 |
| 1954 | 9 | #2,898 | 4.4 |
| 1953 | 27 | #1,472 | 13.7 |
| 1952 | 19 | #1,792 | 9.8 |
| 1951 | 18 | #1,818 | 9.6 |
| 1950 | 15 | #2,004 | 8.4 |
| 1949 | 17 | #1,863 | 9.6 |
| 1948 | 21 | #1,646 | 12.0 |
| 1947 | 22 | #1,638 | 12.0 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,494 | 14.2 |
| 1945 | 16 | #1,748 | 11.9 |
| 1944 | 15 | #1,865 | 11.0 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,815 | 11.9 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,458 | 17.4 |
| 1941 | 10 | #2,454 | 8.1 |
| 1940 | 23 | #1,426 | 19.8 |
| 1939 | 18 | #1,620 | 16.3 |
| 1938 | 18 | #1,674 | 16.2 |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,169 | 11.3 |
| 1936 | 12 | #2,149 | 11.6 |
| 1935 | 24 | #1,417 | 23.0 |
| 1934 | 10 | #2,522 | 9.7 |
| 1933 | 11 | #2,330 | 11.1 |
| 1932 | 21 | #1,574 | 20.1 |
| 1931 | 15 | #1,981 | 14.4 |
| 1930 | 15 | #2,045 | 13.7 |
| 1929 | 6 | #3,853 | 5.6 |
| 1928 | 17 | #1,947 | 15.3 |
| 1927 | 17 | #2,014 | 15.1 |
| 1926 | 10 | #2,861 | 9.0 |
| 1925 | 14 | #2,292 | 12.5 |
| 1924 | 25 | #1,565 | 22.1 |
| 1923 | 19 | #1,855 | 17.3 |
| 1922 | 13 | #2,450 | 11.9 |
| 1921 | 10 | #2,930 | 9.1 |
| 1920 | 11 | #2,722 | 10.3 |
| 1919 | 13 | #2,355 | 13.3 |
| 1918 | 13 | #2,361 | 12.8 |
| 1917 | 10 | #2,684 | 10.8 |
| 1916 | 8 | #3,123 | 9.0 |
| 1915 | 10 | #2,575 | 11.8 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,148 | 9.8 |
| 1912 | 5 | #2,819 | 11.6 |
| 1907 | 5 | #1,494 | 34.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Percell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Percell has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 81 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Percell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Percell, and how old are they?
An estimated 506 Americans named Percell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (48% of everyone recorded); the median is 64 years old and half are between 51 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 430 people named Percell (14 women and girls, 416 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 592 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Percell born?
The states with the most babies named Percell are Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina, with 100% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Virginia and South Carolina are not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Virginia | 233 | not ranked | 9.5× |
| North Carolina | 97 | not ranked | 3.0× |
| South Carolina | 5 | not ranked | 0.3× |
Where Percell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Percell is most over-represented in Virginia: since 1910 it was given 9.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Percell with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Percell
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Percell and names like it
- Compare Percell and GlynnBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sPercell peaked in 1953.
- Virginia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Percell since 1910.
- The top names of 1953The year the most babies were named Percell.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Percell alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.