Perley
Perley reached its high-water mark in 1915 at number 1,181, and has been recorded 1,052 times in all. Its origin is given as a surname. It has not appeared in the national data since 1964. About 130 Perleys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 78.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Perley boys named Perley
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,052
- Estimated living today
- 130
- Median age today
- 78
- Peak year
- 1915
- Best rank
- 1,181st
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 32 / 1,020
How old the living Perleys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,052 babies given the name since 1880, about 130 are alive — 12 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1947 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin a surname
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Where Perley is most common
Across the country Perley is recorded 0.08 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Perleys are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1915
The most popular boys’ names the year Perley peaked:
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Perley against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.