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How popular is “Perry” in the USA?

Number of people named “Perry” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Perry” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Perry” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Perry” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Perry” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Perry” by birth year

This chart shows how “Perry” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 134 0.000665065 134 -100%
1881 123 0.000638338 123 -100%
1882 133 0.000600362 133 -100%
1883 139 0.000640712 6 133 -91%
1884 135 0.000554504 135 -100%
1885 115 0.000477468 115 -100%
1886 141 0.000552257 141 -100%
1887 112 0.000452723 112 -100%
1888 124 0.000414059 124 -100%
1889 105 0.00036339 105 -100%
1890 108 0.000358327 108 -100%
1891 104 0.000362783 104 -100%
1892 110 0.000328973 110 -100%
1893 97 0.000298257 6 91 -88%
1894 78 0.000230299 78 -100%
1895 97 0.000276338 97 -100%
1896 111 0.000310503 111 -100%
1897 109 0.00031416 6 103 -89%
1898 83 0.000217588 83 -100%
1899 112 0.000330156 8 104 -86%
1900 142 0.000315375 142 -100%
1901 93 0.000268932 6 87 -87%
1902 108 0.000279262 108 -100%
1903 88 0.00023085 88 -100%
1904 100 0.000247841 7 93 -86%
1905 110 0.000259482 6 104 -89%
1906 102 0.000238067 5 97 -90%
1907 93 0.000199832 7 86 -85%
1908 142 0.000290597 9 133 -87%
1909 117 0.000228862 8 109 -86%
1910 135 0.000228538 10 125 -85%
1911 152 0.000235923 152 -100%
1912 234 0.000236827 18 216 -85%
1913 295 0.00025943 15 280 -90%
1914 353 0.000249233 15 338 -92%
1915 492 0.000268497 14 478 -94%
1916 455 0.000235213 16 439 -93%
1917 541 0.00026959 14 527 -95%
1918 578 0.000266223 25 553 -91%
1919 546 0.000258738 18 528 -93%
1920 567 0.000250592 25 542 -91%
1921 586 0.000251017 21 565 -93%
1922 631 0.000275647 16 615 -95%
1923 609 0.000264497 21 588 -93%
1924 630 0.000264527 28 602 -91%
1925 596 0.000255432 28 568 -91%
1926 590 0.000256979 25 565 -92%
1927 604 0.000260417 20 584 -93%
1928 662 0.000292799 29 633 -91%
1929 593 0.000270509 17 576 -94%
1930 598 0.000268971 17 581 -94%
1931 557 0.000264685 14 543 -95%
1932 545 0.000258136 17 528 -94%
1933 505 0.00025257 19 486 -92%
1934 559 0.000269162 14 545 -95%
1935 540 0.000258386 23 517 -91%
1936 524 0.000252217 20 504 -92%
1937 561 0.000263297 17 544 -94%
1938 598 0.000270273 19 579 -94%
1939 612 0.000277747 28 584 -91%
1940 580 0.00025188 27 553 -91%
1941 613 0.000251598 20 593 -93%
1942 742 0.000271614 36 706 -90%
1943 723 0.000256151 33 690 -91%
1944 632 0.000234937 27 605 -91%
1945 708 0.000266877 25 683 -93%
1946 884 0.000276656 28 856 -94%
1947 1074 0.000298141 21 1053 -96%
1948 1013 0.000293409 32 981 -94%
1949 1083 0.00031078 25 1058 -95%
1950 1131 0.000322833 35 1096 -94%
1951 1202 0.000326299 26 1176 -96%
1952 1174 0.00030911 21 1153 -96%
1953 1250 0.000324368 23 1227 -96%
1954 1273 0.000319792 19 1254 -97%
1955 1473 0.000366867 22 1451 -97%
1956 1899 0.000460583 32 1867 -97%
1957 2402 0.000571613 33 2369 -97%
1958 2775 0.000671278 40 2735 -97%
1959 2785 0.000669794 35 2750 -97%
1960 2459 0.000591986 43 2416 -97%
1961 2251 0.000543418 23 2228 -98%
1962 1957 0.000484961 26 1931 -97%
1963 1740 0.000439594 28 1712 -97%
1964 1569 0.00040359 20 1549 -97%
1965 1388 0.000382849 25 1363 -96%
1966 1145 0.000329434 23 1122 -96%
1967 1032 0.000303986 18 1014 -97%
1968 902 0.000266989 11 891 -98%
1969 913 0.000262709 18 895 -96%
1970 867 0.000240398 22 845 -95%
1971 746 0.000217343 14 732 -96%
1972 558 0.000177538 16 542 -94%
1973 513 0.000170043 7 506 -97%
1974 543 0.000178618 15 528 -94%
1975 501 0.000165927 13 488 -95%
1976 479 0.000157862 19 460 -92%
1977 394 0.000124036 14 380 -93%
1978 424 0.000133591 8 416 -96%
1979 469 0.000140968 12 457 -95%
1980 464 0.000134707 21 443 -91%
1981 484 0.00013991 12 472 -95%
1982 441 0.000125714 15 426 -93%
1983 470 0.000135707 25 445 -89%
1984 435 0.000124686 14 421 -94%
1985 542 0.000151859 21 521 -92%
1986 499 0.000140284 25 474 -90%
1987 512 0.000142001 29 483 -89%
1988 482 0.000130445 26 456 -89%
1989 494 0.000128497 31 463 -87%
1990 495 0.000125238 22 473 -91%
1991 447 0.000114755 19 428 -91%
1992 414 0.000107777 27 387 -87%
1993 441 0.000116967 32 409 -85%
1994 410 0.000110285 40 370 -80%
1995 371 0.000101306 29 342 -84%
1996 361 0.00009898 45 316 -75%
1997 343 0.000094601 24 319 -86%
1998 323 0.000087815 27 296 -83%
1999 287 0.000077696 25 262 -83%
2000 293 0.000077515 30 263 -80%
2001 270 0.000072127 25 245 -81%
2002 250 0.000066875 19 231 -85%
2003 241 0.000063382 25 216 -79%
2004 258 0.000067523 32 226 -75%
2005 227 0.00005904 34 193 -70%
2006 225 0.000056873 30 195 -73%
2007 214 0.000053531 31 183 -71%
2008 194 0.000049356 28 166 -71%
2009 192 0.000050259 29 163 -70%
2010 163 0.000044105 32 131 -61%
2011 189 0.000051671 40 149 -58%
2012 206 0.000056325 62 144 -40%
2013 202 0.000055408 63 139 -38%
2014 220 0.000059357 69 151 -37%
2015 227 0.000061336 87 140 -23%
2016 210 0.000057241 88 122 -16%
2017 244 0.000068229 97 147 -20%
2018 215 0.000061151 80 135 -26%
2019 233 0.000067129 101 132 -13%
2020 234 0.000070048 88 146 -25%
2021 253 0.000074676 108 145 -15%
2022 239 0.000070645 102 137 -15%
2023 259 0.000078219 123 136 -5%
2024 264 0.000079315 104 160 -21%

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