Peri
Peri was given to 22 girls in 2025, #5,666 among girls’ names; 2,475 Americans have been recorded with it since 1936 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,320 Americans named Peri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 18 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Peri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Peri?
#5,666 among girls’ names, 2025
Peri fell from #3,830 in 2015 to #5,666 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 22.4 to 13.7 per million.
97 babies in 1960, the peak
Peri peaked in 1960, when 97 babies were given it (92 girls, #1,135 among girls’ names). The 22 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,666 | 13.7 |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,404 | 14.8 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,432 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,443 | 19.5 |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,720 | 25.0 |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,825 | 23.5 |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,055 | 21.4 |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,418 | 14.1 |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,680 | 24.3 |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,140 | 20.3 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 40 | #3,830 | 22.4 |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,242 | 19.6 |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,983 | 21.7 |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,358 | 19.3 |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,885 | 16.5 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,941 | 16.3 |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,254 | 19.6 |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,091 | 12.2 |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,036 | 20.3 |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,298 | 26.3 |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,245 | 26.0 |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,158 | 26.7 |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,828 | 30.1 |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,438 | 36.7 |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,529 | 33.9 |
| 2000 | 72 | #2,202 | 39.6 |
| 1999 | 65 | #2,299 | 36.6 |
| 1998 | 68 | #2,137 | 38.5 |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,215 | 35.6 |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,118 | 37.1 |
| 1995 | 47 | #2,639 | 26.7 |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,369 | 30.8 |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,744 | 16.0 |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,642 | 16.3 |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,856 | 8.5 |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,084 | 13.2 |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,993 | 9.8 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,791 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,527 | 8.1 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,377 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,232 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,448 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,101 | 6.6 |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,478 | 10.0 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,770 | 4.2 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,633 | 6.0 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,650 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,288 | 4.6 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,360 | 5.2 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,911 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,849 | 6.9 |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,940 | 8.2 |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,123 | 4.1 |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,351 | 6.6 |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,254 | 8.4 |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,308 | 5.7 |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,985 | 12.4 |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,196 | 18.9 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,416 | 15.7 |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,692 | 26.6 |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,391 | 14.7 |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,061 | 17.9 |
| 1963 | 41 | #1,832 | 21.3 |
| 1962 | 52 | #1,572 | 26.4 |
| 1961 | 70 | #1,338 | 34.7 |
| 1960 | 92 | #1,135 | 45.5 |
| 1959 | 78 | #1,212 | 38.5 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,569 | 23.4 |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,400 | 11.2 |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,695 | 9.5 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,527 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,499 | 10.3 |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,671 | 9.0 |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,894 | 8.1 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,931 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,145 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,109 | 3.5 |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,116 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,255 | 4.5 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,932 | 5.4 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,438 | 7.0 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,718 | 4.8 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Peri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Peri has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 82 years of records.
Girls and boys named Peri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Peri, and how old are they?
2,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 2,475 Americans ever recorded as Peri. The median Peri alive today is 29 years old; half are between 18 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 2,273 people named Peri (2,179 women and girls, 94 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,186 born in the U.S. The Census count is 4% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 9 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 472 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 236 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 388 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 777 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 437 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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 Peri born?
The states with the most babies named Peri are New York, California and Texas, with 82% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 301 | not ranked | 1.7× |
| California | 207 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Texas | 50 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New Jersey | 42 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 18 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Michigan | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 10 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Maryland | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Peri is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Peri is most over-represented in New York: since 1936 it was given 1.7 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 girls’ 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 Peri with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 5,537 babies since 1880, Peri is the second most given (45% of them). In 2025 it was given to 22 of their 72 babies (31%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Peri
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 Peri and names like it
- Compare Peri and PerriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sPeri peaked in 1960.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Peri since 1910.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Peri.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Peri alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.