Perry
Perry is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 160 births. Its best rank was 101st, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1600.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19592,750 births
- Best rank
- #101in 1880
- Since 1880
- 79,516people given the name
The story in the numbers
75,908 boys have been named Perry in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1959, with 2,750 births — 0.13% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1958, and the 1950s alone account for 22%. It has spent 127 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 3,608 girls have also been given it, 4.5% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Perry | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 1,255 | |
| 1890s | 989 | |
| 1900s | 1,047 | |
| 1910s | 3,636 | |
| 1920s | 5,838 | |
| 1930s | 5,411 | |
| 1940s | 7,778 | |
| 1950s | 17,078 | |
| 1960s | 15,121 | |
| 1970s | 5,354 | |
| 1980s | 4,604 | |
| 1990s | 3,602 | |
| 2000s | 2,081 | |
| 2010s | 1,390 | |
| 2020s | 724 |
In 1959, its biggest year
Perry was the 132nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1959 were Michael, David, James, John and Robert. See all of 1959.
Names that rose and fell with Perry
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Lenpeak 1960
- Martinpeak 1963
- Danpeak 1960
- Davepeak 1959
- Johnpeak 1947
- Toneypeak 1961
- Vanpeak 1953
- Artpeak 1961
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.