Boy
Perry
As a boy's name, Perry is understood to mean "Dweller by the pear tree". It had its heyday in the 1950s and has mostly fallen out of use since. Today, it is comfortably in the mainstream in the registry. Its single strongest year on record was 1959.
Middle EnglishMiddle English
Etymology"Dweller by the pear tree"
Births by decade
1900s
1,095
1910s
3,781
1920s
6,068
1930s
5,598
1940s
8,051
1950s
17,359
1960s
15,356
1970s
5,495
1980s
4,820
1990s
3,886
2000s
2,331
2010s
1,646
Peaked in the 1950s · 75,486 total U.S. births since 1900