Perî

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Perî is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پری (peri), from Persian پری (pari).

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 457K(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 105K
  • USUnited States1 in 146K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

2,273 people, 2020

Sources
90 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 105K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Peri in US United States, BR Brazil.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Perî: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Perî
  1. Ottoman Turkishپریperi(measured from records)
  2. Persianپریpari(measured from records)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پری (peri), from Persian پری (pari).

Sources 4

  • TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary)
  • Wiktionary
  • Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Perî counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Perî is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,2731 in 146K2.2KPeri90
BR Brazil4631 in 457K691Peri51
SE Sweden971 in 105K97—3
NL Netherlands301 in 576K30—2
DK Denmark201 in 293K17——

2,273 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Perî is also recorded as 2 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Australia, Germany

    Languages: English, German, Norwegian

    Also written Peri, Péri, Pęřį, Perí, Peří

  • Hebrew surname16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Israel, United States, Romania, Lebanon

    Also written פרי, Perry, פריי, Fry, Ferri

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Perî is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In fur, to perish

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Perî under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Perî mean, and where does it come from?
Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish پری (peri), from Persian پری (pari). Recorded by TDK Kişi Adları Sözlüğü (official Turkish given-name dictionary) and Wiktionary and 2 other sources.
Is Perî a male or female name?
Perî is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Perî have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Perî, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peri.
Where is Perî most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Perî is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 105 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Perî?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,273 people named Perî in 2020, about 1 in 146 thousand residents.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Perî”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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