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 1960
Top girls' names in 1960
Top boys' names in 1960
More about 1960
girls
2,021,941 girls got a published name in 1960; 1 in 21,978 of them was named Peri, which outranked 84.6% of the 7,332 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,126Kenneth93
- #1,126Kevin93
- #1,126Selma93
- #1,131Peri92
- #1,131Delma92
- #1,131Lecia92
- #1,131Leilani92
- #1,138Hollie91
- #1,138Jacklyn91
- #1,138Jaye91
Tied with 6 names at #1,131; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,132,320 boys got a published name in 1960; 1 in 426,464 of them was named Peri, which outranked 12.2% of the 4,598 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 29.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 560 names at #4,038; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.