In 2025, 13 US boys were named Peregrin, making it the 6,714th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,704 places from #5,010 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 20 boys named Peregrin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #5,010, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 20. For comparison, it was #9,352 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Peregrin in 12 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2011 with 5 babies. In all, 114 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 74 babies named Peregrin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 85 US boys were named Peregrin; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 131,390 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.