Perrin
Perrin is given to both girls and boys: 5 girls and 22 boys were given it in 2025 (#16,674 among girls’ names and #4,666 among boys’, #8,589 among all names counting both); 2,047 Americans have been recorded with it since 1899 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,870 Americans named Perrin and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 10 and 35.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Perrin by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Perrin?
#4,666 among boys’ names, 2025
Perrin fell from #2,754 in 2015 to #4,666 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 23.0 to 12.9 per million.
62 babies in 2015, the peak
Perrin peaked in 2015, when 62 babies were given it (44 boys, #2,754 among boys’ names). The 27 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 44% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,674 | 22 | #4,666 |
| 2024 | under 5 | 30 | #3,762 | |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,127 | 36 | #3,328 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,918 | 38 | #3,199 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,928 | 33 | #3,471 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,815 | 34 | #3,323 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,255 | 44 | #2,838 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,491 | 47 | #2,659 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,351 | 40 | #2,992 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,151 | 43 | #2,821 |
Every recorded year (91)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 18 | #6,918 | 44 | #2,754 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,970 | 33 | #3,354 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,083 | 39 | #2,936 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,050 | 22 | #4,492 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,289 | 44 | #2,728 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,167 | 40 | #2,950 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,774 | 27 | #3,891 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,740 | 29 | #3,708 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,428 | 47 | #2,634 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,434 | 32 | #3,361 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,587 | 30 | #3,364 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,016 | 34 | #2,996 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,927 | 29 | #3,248 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,726 | 29 | #3,163 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,203 | 25 | #3,479 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,522 | 23 | #3,606 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,598 | 35 | #2,537 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,889 | 24 | #3,263 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,533 | 16 | #4,183 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,024 | 17 | #3,968 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,925 | 14 | #4,442 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,385 | 15 | #4,232 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,310 | 20 | #3,327 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,359 | 22 | #3,079 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,809 | 13 | #4,406 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,577 | 8 | #6,255 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,402 | 15 | #3,755 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,153 | 10 | #4,690 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,524 | 13 | #3,669 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,557 | 14 | #3,393 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 12 | #3,748 | |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,632 | 12 | #3,619 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,868 | 10 | #4,070 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,924 | 12 | #3,634 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 5 | #7,003 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 11 | #3,784 | |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,700 | 15 | #2,985 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,385 | 13 | #3,180 |
| 1977 | under 5 | 7 | #4,977 | |
| 1976 | under 5 | 6 | #5,431 | |
| 1975 | under 5 | 5 | #6,072 | |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,416 | 7 | #4,505 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,208 | 12 | #2,975 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,211 | 6 | #4,825 |
| 1971 | under 5 | 18 | #2,254 | |
| 1970 | under 5 | 17 | #2,268 | |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,835 | 11 | #2,816 |
| 1968 | under 5 | 6 | #4,016 | |
| 1967 | under 5 | 8 | #3,175 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 12 | #2,426 | |
| 1965 | under 5 | 13 | #2,343 | |
| 1964 | under 5 | 10 | #2,795 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 11 | #2,640 | |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,311 | 9 | #2,994 |
| 1961 | under 5 | 11 | #2,659 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 10 | #2,816 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 7 | #3,511 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 7 | #3,478 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 8 | #3,138 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 12 | #2,404 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 6 | #3,727 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 8 | #3,083 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 11 | #2,466 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 6 | #3,592 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 6 | #3,437 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 8 | #2,803 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 6 | #3,467 | |
| 1942 | under 5 | 5 | #3,934 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 6 | #3,407 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 6 | #3,378 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,547 | |
| 1931 | under 5 | 5 | #4,194 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 6 | #4,038 | |
| 1925 | under 5 | 9 | #3,086 | |
| 1922 | under 5 | 5 | #4,807 | |
| 1919 | under 5 | 6 | #4,055 | |
| 1918 | under 5 | 8 | #3,301 | |
| 1917 | under 5 | 7 | #3,473 | |
| 1916 | under 5 | 5 | #4,346 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 5 | #2,820 | |
| 1899 | under 5 | 5 | #1,165 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Perrin a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,047 Americans recorded as Perrin, 23% are girls and 77% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Perrin: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Perrin, and how old are they?
1,870 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 2,047 Americans ever recorded as Perrin. The median Perrin alive today is 21 years old; half are between 10 and 35.
The 2020 Census counted 1,715 people named Perrin (513 women and girls, 1,202 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,680 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 12 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 89 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 184 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 318 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 642 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 628 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,245 babies since 1880, Perrin is the most given (91% of them). In 2025 it was given to 27 of their 34 babies (79%), 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 Perrin
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 Perrin and names like it
- Compare Perrin and PerrionBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sPerrin peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Perrin since 1910.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Perrin.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Perrin alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.