Perry

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Perry: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Perry: Recorded since 1959, with a gap of 36 years, its highest recorded position is #95, and it stood at #1,675 in 2024.

2registrars recorded it
37times a registrar ranked it
66years from first to last
#95highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Perry's record

Absent from every published list for 36 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1997–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#2411
1998	#3848
2003	#4373
2014	#3514
2015	#5730
2017	#4763
2022	#5669

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1959–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #220 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #1675 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Perry appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,015 births with the name.

Perry across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Perry's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#220 (1996)	#220 (1996)	#1675 (2024)	29 of 29	1,015 (1996–2024)	139 (1996)
England and Wales · Girls	#2411 (1997)	#2411 (1997)	#5669 (2022)	7 of 26	28 (1997–2022)	6 (1997)

Perry by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Perry in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	431	4 of 10	108
2000sbusiest	277	10 of 10	28
2010s	237	10 of 10	24
2020s	70	5 of 10	14

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 28 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1999 and 2000, when recorded births fell by 45, from 85 to 40.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Perry appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1959 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #95 in New South Wales, Australia in 1959.

Perry's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#1675	15	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#2546	8	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#5669	3	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1609	15	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1391	18	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1635	14	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1869	12	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1061	26	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#1289	20	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#1123	25	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#1095	25	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#3514	6	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#959	30	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1116	23	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#837	37	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1522	15	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1109	24	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1175	21	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#916	29	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1125	21	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1127	19	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#827	28	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#773	28	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#4373	3	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#795	26	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#559	37	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#654	28	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#491	40	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#310	85	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#3848	3	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#278	96	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#2411	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#258	111	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#220	139	High	Verified
1959	New South Wales, Australia	male	#95	64	Insufficient	Not yet available

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New South Wales, Australia hub — collected by NSW Registry of Births Deaths and Marriages

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1959 and 2024, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #95, first reached in 1959.

It held a top-100 place in 1 year.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 139 births, registered in England and Wales in 1996.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 36 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 37 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Perran · #1552, 22y
Perrie · #355, 19y
Persephone · #550, 27y
Perseus · #1692, 12y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Macauley · #95, 29y
Wade · #95, 33y
Embla · #96, 33y
Baby · #93, 29y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Dawn · #95, 64y
Guy · #95, 44y
Darrell · #96, 53y
Zahra · #94, 75y

Perry was ranked #95 in New South Wales, Australia · Boys in 1959. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Perry and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Perry without appearing here.

Perry moved ahead of

Grant Compare
In 2019 they stood at #1869 and #1869 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #1635 and #3334.
Ross Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2546 and #2160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1675 and #3254.
Helene Compare
In 2016 they stood at #5730 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2017 that had become #4763 and #5765.
Gary Compare
In 2023 they stood at #2546 and #2546 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1675 and #2671.

Moved ahead of Perry

Linnea Compare
In 2014 they stood at #3514 and #4003 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #2496.
Finley Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2411 and #3174 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3848 and #1392.
Shea Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2411 and #2738 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3848 and #1823.
Ida Compare
In 1997 they stood at #2411 and #2738 in England and Wales · Girls; by 1998 that had become #3848 and #2165.

Moved the opposite way to Perry

Albie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Perry went from #220 to #1675 while Albie went from #853 to #19.
Alfie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Perry went from #220 to #1675 while Alfie went from #119 to #16.
Alfred Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Perry went from #220 to #1675 while Alfred went from #218 to #81.
Archie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Perry went from #220 to #1675 while Archie went from #192 to #10.

Moved the same way as Perry

Aaron Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Perry went from #220 to #1675 and Aaron from #33 to #154.
Adam Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Perry went from #220 to #1675 and Adam from #16 to #35.
Alan Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Perry went from #220 to #1675 and Alan from #163 to #592.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Boys, Perry went from #220 to #1675 and Alex from #43 to #171.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1959 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #95 in New South Wales, Australia in 1959. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Perry

Perry at a glance

What stands out in Perry's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Perry across 2 official records

Perry by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Perry appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Perry at a glance

What stands out in Perry's record

Perry across 2 official records

Perry by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Perry appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Names published alongside Perry

Perry and the names beside it

Perry moved ahead of

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