Perry
A boys’ name of Old English origin, meaning dweller by the pear tree or ferry.
Perry by the numbers
In 2025, 16 babies in England and Wales were named Perry. In the US, 239 were, though that figure is from 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
For the size of the two countries, it is given noticeably more often in the US than in England and Wales.
Its American peak was 2,750 babies in 1959, so it is a 1950s name that has since fallen a long way.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Perry. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
- Percypierces the valley; from Perci152 in England and Wales (2025)
- Pedrostone or rock; Spanish form of Peter809 in the US (2017)
- Pierrestone or rock; French form of Peter155 in the US (2017)
- Perrinlittle stone; a form of Pierre55 in the US (2017)
- Petrustone, rock; a form of Peter11 in England and Wales (2025)
- Perezto break forth or burst; spanish form of peretz10 in England and Wales (2025)
Other names that mean a tree
Like Perry, each of these has a tree in its meaning. Different names, different histories, the same idea.
- Oliverolive tree; peace3,154 in England and Wales (2025)
- Hazelthe hazel tree; hazel-eyed5,019 in the US (2017)
- Rowanlittle red one; the rowan tree1,398 in England and Wales (2025)
- Willowthe willow tree; grace, flexibility1,384 in England and Wales (2025)
- Ashtonash tree settlement3,129 in the US (2017)
- Ashleyash tree meadow2,549 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Perry
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