Peri
#5,554 for girls in 2025, 22 births · Last seen for boys in 1960 at #4,038
Given to girls 99.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1960 · 92 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,465since 1936
Peri over time
Rank among girls' names. Peri has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,554 | 22 | — | |
| 2024 | #5,300 | 24 | — | |
| 2023 | #4,363 | 32 | — | |
| 2022 | #4,378 | 32 | — | |
| 2021 | #3,678 | 41 | — | |
| 2020 | #3,778 | 38 | — | |
| 2019 | #4,006 | 36 | — | |
| 2018 | #5,315 | 24 | — | |
| 2017 | #3,627 | 42 | — | |
| 2016 | #4,083 | 36 | — | |
| 2015 | #3,767 | 40 | — | |
| 2014 | #4,178 | 35 | — | |
| 2013 | #3,918 | 38 | — | |
| 2012 | #4,296 | 34 | — | |
| 2011 | #4,807 | 29 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,860 | 29 | — | |
| 2009 | #4,196 | 36 | — | |
| 2008 | #5,955 | 23 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,983 | 39 | — | |
| 2006 | #3,264 | 50 | — | |
| 2005 | #3,212 | 48 | — | |
| 2004 | #3,127 | 49 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,800 | 55 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,414 | 66 | — | |
| 2001 | #2,512 | 61 | — | |
| 2000 | #2,190 | 72 | — | |
| 1999 | #2,283 | 65 | — | |
| 1998 | #2,124 | 68 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,200 | 62 | — | |
| 1996 | #2,106 | 65 | — | |
| 1995 | #2,623 | 47 | — | |
| 1994 | #2,353 | 55 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,681 | 29 | — | |
| 1992 | #3,581 | 30 | — | |
| 1991 | #5,659 | 16 | — | |
| 1990 | #4,003 | 25 | — | |
| 1989 | #4,848 | 18 | — | |
| 1988 | #4,653 | 18 | — | |
| 1987 | #5,312 | 14 | — | |
| 1986 | #5,188 | 14 | — | |
| 1985 | #4,126 | 19 | — | |
| 1984 | #5,222 | 13 | — | |
| 1983 | #5,824 | 11 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,347 | 17 | — | |
| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | — | |
| 1980 | #6,319 | 10 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,427 | 12 | — | |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | — | |
| 1977 | #6,892 | 8 | — | |
| 1976 | #5,601 | 10 | — | |
| 1975 | #5,516 | 10 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,720 | 12 | — | |
| 1973 | #7,435 | 6 | — | |
| 1972 | #5,109 | 10 | — | |
| 1971 | #4,123 | 14 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,061 | 10 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,917 | 21 | — | |
| 1968 | #2,164 | 31 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,376 | 26 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,669 | 45 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,345 | 26 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,040 | 34 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,815 | 41 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,558 | 52 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,327 | 70 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,131 | 92 | #4,038 | 5 |
| 1959 | #1,208 | 78 | #3,988 | 5 |
| 1958 | #1,557 | 47 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,347 | 23 | — | |
| 1956 | #2,622 | 19 | — | |
| 1955 | #2,472 | 20 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,450 | 20 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,595 | 17 | — | |
| 1952 | #2,806 | 15 | — | |
| 1951 | #3,714 | 9 | — | |
| 1950 | #4,738 | 6 | — | |
| 1949 | #4,673 | 6 | — | |
| 1948 | #4,651 | 6 | — | |
| 1947 | #4,007 | 8 | — | |
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| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 | — | |
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| 1940 | #3,208 | 8 | — | |
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| 1936 | #4,181 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Peri! It came in at #4,181, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1936–1939, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Peri
- 254 spots since 2024 (#5,300 → #5,554)
- 1,776 spots since 2020 (#3,778 → #5,554)
- 1,787 spots since 2015 (#3,767 → #5,554)
- Debuted 1936
- Peaked 1960 at #1,131 (92 births)
- Births halved by 1963, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 21,978 girls born in 1960 were named Peri (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 73,058 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 20.2% of all girls named Peri (499) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 5 | #4,181 (1936) | #4,181 |
| 1940s | 35 | #3,208 (1940) | #4,043 |
| 1950s | 254 | #1,208 (1959) | #2,651 |
| 1960s | 438 | #1,131 (1960) | #1,934 |
| 1970s | 99 | #4,123 (1971) | #5,753 |
| 1980s | 141 | #4,126 (1985) | #5,397 |
| 1990s | 462 | #2,106 (1996) | #3,061 |
| 2000s | 499 | #2,190 (2000) | #3,365 |
| 2010s | 343 | #3,627 (2017) | #4,286 |
| 2020s | 189 | #3,678 (2021) | #4,509 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Peri in 1936
Top girls' names in 1936
More about 1936
girls
1,040,390 girls got a published name in 1936; 1 in 208,078 of them was named Peri, which outranked 13.9% of the 4,856 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 24.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 675 names at #4,181; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
- ↓ 1,028Norita#713 → #1,741
- ↓ 506Vernetta#974 → #1,480
- ↓ 461Ozella#984 → #1,445
- ↓ 400Shirleyann#896 → #1,296
- ↓ 342Idell#925 → #1,267
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.