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Perri vs Pershing

American parents have registered 2,562 Perris since 1880, against 599 Pershings. Perri is still ahead, with 26 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Perri against Pershing, 1880 to 2025 0 80 160 240 320 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Perri Pershing

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 95 years in which either name was published, Perri for 77 years and Pershing for 18 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Perri Pershing
Total US births 2,562599
Most in one year 133295
Babies in 2025 26under 5
Estimated living today 2,40030
Median age today 3379
Peak year 19581918
Best rank 947th girls334th boys
Rank in 2025 4,987thunranked
First recorded 19421915
Girls / boys 2,448 / 1140 / 599

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Pershings alive today are over 79; half the Perris are over 33. That is 46 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Perri and Pershing.