Unisex name · since 2007
Perfect
Since 2007, U.S. Social Security records show 36 babies named Perfect, peaking in 2020. See the year-by-year trend, decade totals, and state rankings below, sourced from federal birth data.
- #38,917 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,248 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 36
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
Perfect currently ranks #16248 among unisex names in America, with 36 babies recorded since 2007.
Perfect has 36 recorded births among girls since 2007, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, ranked #16248 as of the latest data, more common than 6% of girls, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2007 to 2025.
- #38,917 of 72,339 all-time among girls
- #16,248 of 17,297 2025 SSA year
- 36 born since 2007
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Perfect ranks #38,917 of 72,339 girls' names by all-time recorded births (highest first) and #16,248 of 17,297 among girls' names in 2025. 36 born since 2007, peaking in the 2020s.
- #38,917 of 72,339
- all-time among girls
- #16,248 of 17,297
- 2025 SSA year
- 36
- born since 2007
- 2020s
- peak decade
Perfect's 36 recorded births place it above 46.06% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
How Perfect compares
36 12th percentile among 17,297 names currently given to girls
Based on all-time total births among currently-ranked girls names. Names with fewer occurrences are grouped into wider buckets on the right.
Source U.S. Social Security Administration, national baby name data
How the numbers stack up
Perfect's all-time total is 90% below the median girls name, and Olivia still leads by a wide margin.
| Metric | Perfect | Median girls name (Kyann) | #1 girls name (Olivia) |
|---|---|---|---|
| All-time total births | 36 | 376 | 567,345 |
| Peak-year births | 8 | 21 | 19,840 |
Perfect's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Perfect's SSA record in two at 2023 and the more recent half accounts for 42% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 58%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 2007, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 2020 peak of 8, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Perfect popularity over time - girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2007–2025
- Peak year (2020)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 19 years of records
Perfect popularity over time - boys
18 total births recorded since 2018 (Perfect as boys' name)
Perfect by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (31 births, 86% of the file).
2020s was Perfect's strongest decade.
31 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 86% of all-time use.
Perfect births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
- 2020s
2020s
31 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 31 births (86% of all-time use).
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2007–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Perfect draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.