Perri
Perri was given to 26 girls in 2025, #5,063 among girls’ names; 2,562 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,370 Americans named Perri and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 18 and 63.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Perri by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Perri mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Perri is “a female given name.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Perri?
#5,063 among girls’ names, 2025
Perri fell from #3,582 in 2015 to #5,063 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 24.6 to 16.2 per million.
133 babies in 1958, the peak
Perri peaked in 1958, when 133 babies were given it (119 girls, #949 among girls’ names). The 26 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 26 | #5,063 | 16.2 |
| 2024 | 42 | #3,681 | 25.9 |
| 2023 | 45 | #3,510 | 28.0 |
| 2022 | 31 | #4,554 | 18.9 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,658 | 25.6 |
| 2020 | 31 | #4,420 | 19.2 |
| 2019 | 38 | #3,900 | 22.6 |
| 2018 | 41 | #3,722 | 24.1 |
| 2017 | 35 | #4,206 | 20.3 |
| 2016 | 46 | #3,453 | 26.0 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #3,582 | 24.6 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,982 | 21.3 |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,312 | 19.4 |
| 2012 | 35 | #4,270 | 19.9 |
| 2011 | 17 | #7,340 | 9.7 |
| 2010 | 31 | #4,706 | 17.4 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,839 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 21 | #6,509 | 11.1 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,853 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,540 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 23 | #5,559 | 12.4 |
| 2004 | 26 | #5,037 | 14.2 |
| 2003 | 23 | #5,361 | 12.6 |
| 2002 | 24 | #5,044 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 35 | #3,762 | 19.4 |
| 2000 | 42 | #3,253 | 23.1 |
| 1999 | 31 | #3,863 | 17.5 |
| 1998 | 38 | #3,278 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 35 | #3,348 | 20.1 |
| 1996 | 44 | #2,782 | 25.1 |
| 1995 | 59 | #2,269 | 33.6 |
| 1994 | 49 | #2,569 | 27.4 |
| 1993 | 55 | #2,338 | 30.4 |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,536 | 27.1 |
| 1991 | 41 | #2,861 | 21.9 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,777 | 22.1 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,368 | 16.8 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,134 | 18.0 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,385 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 31 | #3,026 | 18.1 |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,233 | 11.0 |
| 1984 | 16 | #4,666 | 9.5 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,716 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,879 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 6 | #10,006 | 3.6 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,921 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,048 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 13 | #5,126 | 8.5 |
| 1977 | 12 | #5,439 | 7.8 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,479 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,726 | 4.8 |
| 1974 | 21 | #3,284 | 14.3 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,767 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,238 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,895 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,690 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,890 | 13.0 |
| 1968 | 25 | #2,524 | 15.2 |
| 1967 | 25 | #2,476 | 15.1 |
| 1966 | 22 | #2,639 | 13.0 |
| 1965 | 35 | #1,978 | 19.8 |
| 1964 | 43 | #1,796 | 22.7 |
| 1963 | 51 | #1,592 | 26.5 |
| 1962 | 46 | #1,684 | 23.4 |
| 1961 | 81 | #1,229 | 40.1 |
| 1960 | 90 | #1,152 | 44.5 |
| 1959 | 91 | #1,123 | 45.0 |
| 1958 | 119 | #949 | 59.2 |
| 1957 | 50 | #1,526 | 24.5 |
| 1956 | 32 | #1,921 | 15.9 |
| 1955 | 25 | #2,208 | 12.8 |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,555 | 4.1 |
| 1953 | 15 | #2,901 | 8.0 |
| 1952 | 16 | #2,767 | 8.6 |
| 1951 | 11 | #3,440 | 6.1 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,146 | 3.5 |
| 1949 | 5 | #5,845 | 2.9 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,830 | 2.9 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,150 | 3.4 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,381 | 6.4 |
| 1943 | 7 | #4,098 | 5.0 |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,515 | 4.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Perri a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,562 Americans recorded as Perri, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 26 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Perri: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Perri, and how old are they?
2,370 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 2,562 Americans ever recorded as Perri. The median Perri alive today is 34 years old; half are between 18 and 63.
The 2020 Census counted 2,228 people named Perri (2,068 women and girls, 160 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,214 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 642 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 254 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 531 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 442 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 490 |
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 Perri born?
The states with the most babies named Perri are New York, California and Texas, with 84% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 184 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 127 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 81 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New Jersey | 32 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Michigan | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Washington | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 6 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Indiana | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Oklahoma | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
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 Perri 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, Perri is the most given (46% of them). In 2025 it was given to 26 of their 72 babies (36%), again the 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 Perri
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 Perri and names like it
- Compare Perri and PeriBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sPerri peaked in 1958.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Perri since 1910.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Perri.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Perri alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with PMost given first.