girls:
32 births since 1890
#5684 (1st percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1880
#3573 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1880
#6687 (14th percentile)
The name Perley is the #6,687 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,052 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 13.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,573 (22.0% percentile) for all time with 1,020 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,684 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 32 births since 1890.
Perley has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1890 for girls). Birth data for Perley is available in 76 out of the 85 years between 1880 and 1964 (76 years for boys and 6 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Perley has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Perley reached its peak popularity in 1881, achieving the 10.3% percentile (ranked #167) with 222 births per million. The name was most common in 1881, with 222 births per million (ranked 10.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1964.
For girls, Perley reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #572) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 25 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1945.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Perley".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Perley. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Perley is pronounced as PER-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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