Gender-neutral · #1370 in 2025

Perry

Perry: popularity and trends since 1880

Rank
#1370
Born 2025
135
Peak year
1959

Popularity, 1880–2025

per 100,000 boys born

Perry per 100,000 boys born, by year. Peak: 1959. Gaps are years with fewer than five births, which SSA does not publish. Source: SSA, 1880–2025.

Recent trend

Perry has held steady: its share of boys born has barely moved over the last 10 years. It now stands at 6% of its 1959 peak.

Boy or girl?

Over the last 10 years, 41% of children named Perry were recorded as girls and 59% as boys. The file records sex, not a name's gender, and the share is measured over ten years rather than all time, so a name that has changed sides shows where it is now.

Related names

More boy names starting with P

Sounds good with

Names of the other sex that are about as common right now, so two siblings' names do not sound a generation apart.