Perrion
Perrion was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,416 among boys’ names; 198 Americans have been recorded with it since 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Perrion by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Perrion?
#10,416 among boys’ names, 2025
Perrion entered the boys’ rankings after 2015 and stood at #10,416 in 2025.
41 babies in 2000, the peak
Perrion peaked in 2000, when 41 boys were given it, #2,361 among boys’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #10,416 | 4.1 |
| 2021 | 5 | #13,578 | 2.9 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,551 | 2.9 |
| 2018 | 6 | #11,786 | 3.3 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,841 | 3.2 |
| 2014 | 7 | #10,441 | 3.6 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,791 | 3.2 |
| 2010 | 6 | #11,814 | 3.1 |
| 2009 | 13 | #6,715 | 6.6 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,183 | 2.9 |
Every recorded year (20)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 6 | #11,986 | 2.9 |
| 2006 | 12 | #6,793 | 5.8 |
| 2005 | 9 | #8,128 | 4.5 |
| 2004 | 9 | #8,003 | 4.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,096 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,914 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,689 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 41 | #2,361 | 20.9 |
| 1998 | 5 | #10,861 | 2.6 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,720 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Perrion a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Perrion has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 20 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Perrion: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Perrion, and how old are they?
An estimated 195 Americans named Perrion and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 17 and 26. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 182 people named Perrion (17 women and girls, 165 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 180 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
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, Perrion is the second most given (8.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 34 babies (21%), 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 Perrion
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 Perrion and names like it
- Compare Perrion and PerrinBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sPerrion peaked in 2000.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Perrion since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Perrion.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Perrion alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with PMost given first.