Perry is a masculine first name but has increasingly been given to girls in recent years.
Perry is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth boy, and therefore ranks at 1187 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,186 boys names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. In the entire USA, approximately 68,418 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Perry. That is 0.02 % of all living Americans.
Perry is the epitome of endurance. Every year since first names have been registered in the United States, parents have come up with the idea of naming their son Perry. This means that several boys named Perry have witnessed historic events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Perry has reached its highest rank of 95 numerous times, but that was long ago before the beginning of the last century, last time in 1883. Nevertheless, the name has been in the top 100 repeatedly. This makes Perry one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Perry was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Perry will be Perry. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Perry in 2022 – in fact 238 to be precise, confirming Perry is still a popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #890 among all boys‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 2010, when only 162 baby boys were named Perry.
The name Perry may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Perry is apparently especially popular in Mississippi. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 885 men in Mississippi is called Perry. In total, that’s 2,261 people who feel addressed when the name Perry is shouted loudly across Mississippi and who ensure that their name makes it to #183 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Perry as the answer a total of 68,418 times. This places Perry at #367 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Perry as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
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 Perry 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 Perry 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 Perry, you can simply say:
Pig
Elephant
Rocket
Rocket
Yoyo
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Perry
Perry
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
E
R
R
Y
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
R
Y
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. Perry sounds like this:
