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Perfecto vs Perry

American parents have registered 79,735 Perrys since 1880, against 876 Perfectos. Perry is still ahead, with 218 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Perfecto against Perry, 1880 to 2025 0 800 1.6k 2.4k 3.2k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Perfecto Perry

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

Perry has been the commoner name in every year either was published, 1880 to 2025. The lead has never changed hands.

The closest they came was 1906, when Perfecto had 5 and Perry had 102.

Side by side

  Perfecto Perry
Total US births 87679,735
Most in one year 192,786
Babies in 2025 under 5218
Estimated living today 48048,000
Median age today 5361
Peak year 19641959
Best rank 1,850th boys132nd boys
Rank in 2025 unranked1,370th
First recorded 19061880
Girls / boys 0 / 8763,691 / 76,044

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 Perrys alive today are over 61; half the Perfectos are over 53. That is 8 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: Perfecto and Perry.