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Pervis

Pervis is a boy's name that peaked in 1965, when it was the 1,720th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2002. About 470 Pervises are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 59.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

boys named Pervis

By the numbers

Total US births
878
Estimated living today
470
Median age today
59
Peak year
1965
Best rank
1,720th
Rank in 2025
unranked
First recorded
1892

How old the living Pervises are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 6 12 18 24 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 878 babies given the name since 1892, about 470 are alive — 53 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1966 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.

Notable Perviss

People named Pervis with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Pervis is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1965

The most popular boys’ names the year Pervis peaked:

All the names of 1965

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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.