Perley
Perley is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 341st, in 1881.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 191530 births
- Best rank
- #341in 1881
- Since 1880
- 1,052people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,020 boys have been named Perley in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1915, with 30 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 30 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1922, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 17 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 32 girls have also been given it, 3.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1915, its biggest year
Perley was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1915 were John, William, James, Robert and Joseph. See all of 1915.
Names that rose and fell with Perley
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Colonelpeak 1920
- Rollapeak 1916
- Bertpeak 1918
- Charleypeak 1920
- Greenpeak 1927
- Benjimanpeak 1921
- Archpeak 1880
- Elzapeak 1922
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.