Meaning not yet researched.
Perrin: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,166 in 1899.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,166 in 1899; #4,667 in 2025. About 81% of babies named Perrin in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,667 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1899, at #1,166.
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Perrin: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,166 in 1899 · most boys in one year: 47 (2018).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Perrin, making it the 4,667th most common boys’ name of the year, down 903 places from #3,764 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 30 boys named Perrin in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,166, reached in 1899. The most boys given the name in a single year was 47, in 2018. For comparison, it was #2,755 in 2015 and #3,594 in 1950.
In 2025, 5 US girls were named Perrin, making it the 16,678th most common girls’ name of the year. Its best rank for girls was #5,837, reached in 1969. The most girls given the name in a single year was 18, in 2015. For comparison, it was #6,921 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Perrin in 91 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1899 with 5 babies. In all, 2,047 US babies have been given the name, 23% of them girls and 77% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 526 babies named Perrin.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 367 US boys were named Perrin; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 47. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Rarer spellings such as Perrion, Perian and Perryn are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Rare spellings summarised here: Perrion (198), Perian (73), Perryn (26), Perrine (24), Perriann (12), Peron (5).
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 Perrin 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 | 5 | #16,678 | 22 | #4,667 |
| 2024 | — | — | 30 | #3,764 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,132 | 36 | #3,330 |
| 2022 | 12 | #8,923 | 38 | #3,201 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,933 | 33 | #3,474 |
| 2020 | 12 | #8,820 | 34 | #3,325 |
| 2019 | 16 | #7,259 | 44 | #2,839 |
| 2018 | 13 | #8,496 | 47 | #2,660 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,355 | 40 | #2,993 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,154 | 43 | #2,822 |
| 2015 | 18 | #6,921 | 44 | #2,755 |
| 2014 | 15 | #7,973 | 33 | #3,356 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,088 | 39 | #2,938 |
| 2012 | 10 | #11,056 | 22 | #4,495 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,297 | 44 | #2,729 |
| 2010 | 8 | #13,173 | 40 | #2,951 |
| 2009 | 14 | #8,778 | 27 | #3,893 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,746 | 29 | #3,711 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,432 | 47 | #2,634 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,439 | 32 | #3,363 |
| 2005 | 9 | #11,593 | 30 | #3,368 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,021 | 34 | #3,000 |
| 2003 | 12 | #8,932 | 29 | #3,253 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,732 | 29 | #3,167 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,210 | 25 | #3,484 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,530 | 23 | #3,612 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,604 | 35 | #2,541 |
| 1998 | 9 | #9,896 | 24 | #3,267 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,538 | 16 | #4,188 |
| 1996 | 6 | #13,030 | 17 | #3,974 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,930 | 14 | #4,448 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,391 | 15 | #4,238 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,316 | 20 | #3,333 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,366 | 22 | #3,085 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,816 | 13 | #4,413 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,584 | 8 | #6,262 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,408 | 15 | #3,761 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,158 | 10 | #4,695 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,529 | 13 | #3,674 |
| 1986 | 9 | #7,561 | 14 | #3,396 |
| 1985 | — | — | 12 | #3,751 |
| 1984 | 10 | #6,634 | 12 | #3,622 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,871 | 10 | #4,072 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,926 | 12 | #3,635 |
| 1981 | — | — | 5 | #7,006 |
| 1980 | — | — | 11 | #3,785 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,702 | 15 | #2,986 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,387 | 13 | #3,181 |
| 1977 | — | — | 7 | #4,979 |
| 1976 | — | — | 6 | #5,433 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,074 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,418 | 7 | #4,507 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,210 | 12 | #2,977 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,213 | 6 | #4,827 |
| 1971 | — | — | 18 | #2,255 |
| 1970 | — | — | 17 | #2,269 |
| 1969 | 8 | #5,837 | 11 | #2,817 |
| 1968 | — | — | 6 | #4,017 |
| 1967 | — | — | 8 | #3,176 |
| 1966 | — | — | 12 | #2,427 |
| 1965 | — | — | 13 | #2,344 |
| 1964 | — | — | 10 | #2,796 |
| 1963 | — | — | 11 | #2,641 |
| 1962 | 5 | #7,312 | 9 | #2,995 |
| 1961 | — | — | 11 | #2,660 |
| 1960 | — | — | 10 | #2,817 |
| 1959 | — | — | 7 | #3,512 |
| 1957 | — | — | 7 | #3,479 |
| 1956 | — | — | 8 | #3,139 |
| 1955 | — | — | 12 | #2,405 |
| 1954 | — | — | 6 | #3,728 |
| 1953 | — | — | 8 | #3,084 |
| 1951 | — | — | 11 | #2,467 |
| 1950 | — | — | 6 | #3,594 |
| 1946 | — | — | 6 | #3,438 |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,804 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,468 |
| 1942 | — | — | 5 | #3,935 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,408 |
| 1940 | — | — | 6 | #3,378 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,548 |
| 1931 | — | — | 5 | #4,196 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #4,040 |
| 1925 | — | — | 9 | #3,088 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,809 |
| 1919 | — | — | 6 | #4,056 |
| 1918 | — | — | 8 | #3,302 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,474 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,348 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,821 |
| 1899 | — | — | 5 | #1,166 |
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).