Peretz — #7934 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Peretz

The Social Security Administration has registered 139 babies named Peretz between 1987 and 2024, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Peretz currently holds the #7934 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 16 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Peretz performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 85 births during that ten-year window. Across the 4 decades of recorded activity, Peretz shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 40 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Peretz in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Peretz in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 139 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.