Perri

Where Perri comes from

The dictionaries list Perri as a given name — a male given name — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1942
    First appearance
    #4,124 among girls, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1958
    Peak, #947
    119 babies named Perri — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1962
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,672.
  4. 1988
    Perri Pierre born
    American filmmaker
  5. 1988
    Perri Shakes-Drayton born
    British hurdler
In the dictionary
  • A male given name.
  • A female given name.
Namesakes
  • Perri Shakes-Drayton · British hurdler, born 1988
  • Perri Pierre · American filmmaker, born 1988
  • Perri Lister · British actor, singer and dancer, born 1959
  • Perri 6 · British sociologist, born 1960
  • Perri Klass · American pediatrician, academic and writer, born 1958

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.