Perez is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Perez has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Perez. That means that a boy named Perez is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Perez.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Perez. Boys named Perez have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 2,364 Perez ranked higher than ever before in 1984. By comparison, there have been 82 years in which the first name Perez has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their sons Perez only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Perez was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Perez continues to be a precious jewel: 5 newborns were named Perez that year, ranking #10,408 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Perez, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
The first name Perez is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 15 Americans in total bear this name. And these 15 men are located in only three states: Alabama, Georgia and Ohio (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Perez and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Perez in relation to it’s male population is Alabama. And yet even there, only one in 584,038 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Perez present.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. But P is by no means the rarest initial. While X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names, the most common first letters of boys' names are J, A and D.
With five letters, the name Perez is comparatively short. In fact, 17.0% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly five letters. Only 7% of all first names are even shorter, while 75% have more than five letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
From this follows that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with a P, this initial letter is less common than the other letters on average. Incidentally, of the comparatively few boys' names that begin with a P, Paul is currently the most common.
If your name is Perez and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Perez, you can simply say:
Pig
Elephant
Rocket
Elephant
Zebra
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Perez
Perez
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
E
R
E
Z
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
P
E
R
E
Z
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Perez sounds like this:
