Meaning not yet researched.
Peri: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,136 in 1960.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,136 in 1960; #5,667 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Peri in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#5,667 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1960, at #1,136.
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Peri: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,136 in 1960 · most girls in one year: 92 (1960).
In 2025, 22 US girls were named Peri, making it the 5,667th most common girls’ name of the year, down 260 places from #5,407 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 24 girls named Peri in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,136, reached in 1960. That year also had the most girls given the name: 92. For comparison, it was #3,831 in 2015 and #5,147 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Peri in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1936 with 5 babies. In all, 2,475 US babies have been given the name, 99.5% of them girls and 0.4% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 499 babies named Peri.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 327 US girls were named Peri; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 42. In 2025 that was about 1 in 73,058 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Perry (79,735 babies since 1880) and Perri (2,562 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Peri in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 22 | #5,667 | — | — |
| 2024 | 24 | #5,407 | — | — |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,435 | — | — |
| 2022 | 32 | #4,445 | — | — |
| 2021 | 41 | #3,721 | — | — |
| 2020 | 38 | #3,826 | — | — |
| 2019 | 36 | #4,056 | — | — |
| 2018 | 24 | #5,422 | — | — |
| 2017 | 42 | #3,681 | — | — |
| 2016 | 36 | #4,141 | — | — |
| 2015 | 40 | #3,831 | — | — |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,244 | — | — |
| 2013 | 38 | #3,985 | — | — |
| 2012 | 34 | #4,360 | — | — |
| 2011 | 29 | #4,887 | — | — |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,943 | — | — |
| 2009 | 36 | #4,255 | — | — |
| 2008 | 23 | #6,094 | — | — |
| 2007 | 39 | #4,037 | — | — |
| 2006 | 50 | #3,299 | — | — |
| 2005 | 48 | #3,249 | — | — |
| 2004 | 49 | #3,162 | — | — |
| 2003 | 55 | #2,831 | — | — |
| 2002 | 66 | #2,441 | — | — |
| 2001 | 61 | #2,533 | — | — |
| 2000 | 72 | #2,206 | — | — |
| 1999 | 65 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1998 | 68 | #2,140 | — | — |
| 1997 | 62 | #2,218 | — | — |
| 1996 | 65 | #2,121 | — | — |
| 1995 | 47 | #2,644 | — | — |
| 1994 | 55 | #2,374 | — | — |
| 1993 | 29 | #3,749 | — | — |
| 1992 | 30 | #3,647 | — | — |
| 1991 | 16 | #5,862 | — | — |
| 1990 | 25 | #4,089 | — | — |
| 1989 | 18 | #4,999 | — | — |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,796 | — | — |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,532 | — | — |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,380 | — | — |
| 1985 | 19 | #4,234 | — | — |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,449 | — | — |
| 1983 | 11 | #6,103 | — | — |
| 1982 | 17 | #4,479 | — | — |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,772 | — | — |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,634 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,651 | — | — |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,290 | — | — |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,362 | — | — |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,913 | — | — |
| 1975 | 10 | #5,851 | — | — |
| 1974 | 12 | #4,941 | — | — |
| 1973 | 6 | #8,125 | — | — |
| 1972 | 10 | #5,352 | — | — |
| 1971 | 14 | #4,256 | — | — |
| 1970 | 10 | #5,309 | — | — |
| 1969 | 21 | #2,986 | — | — |
| 1968 | 31 | #2,196 | — | — |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,416 | — | — |
| 1966 | 45 | #1,692 | — | — |
| 1965 | 26 | #2,392 | — | — |
| 1964 | 34 | #2,062 | — | — |
| 1963 | 41 | #1,833 | — | — |
| 1962 | 52 | #1,573 | — | — |
| 1961 | 70 | #1,339 | — | — |
| 1960 | 92 | #1,136 | 5 | #4,457 |
| 1959 | 78 | #1,213 | 5 | #4,421 |
| 1958 | 47 | #1,570 | — | — |
| 1957 | 23 | #2,401 | — | — |
| 1956 | 19 | #2,696 | — | — |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,528 | — | — |
| 1954 | 20 | #2,500 | — | — |
| 1953 | 17 | #2,672 | — | — |
| 1952 | 15 | #2,895 | — | — |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,932 | — | — |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,147 | — | — |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,110 | — | — |
| 1948 | 6 | #5,118 | — | — |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,257 | — | — |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,934 | — | — |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,440 | — | — |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,720 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).