Perì

surname · Latin script

Perì is a surname 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
  • SESweden1 in 105K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 146K
  • DKDenmark1 in 293K

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
91 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 105K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Peri in US United States.

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 Perì: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Perì
  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 8 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Perì 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 Perì is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States2,2731 in 146K2.2KPeri73
BR Brazil4631 in 457K691——
SE Sweden971 in 105K97——
NL Netherlands301 in 576K30—1
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).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Perì 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 Perì 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.
In which country does Perì have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Perì, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled peri.
Where is Perì most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Perì 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 Perì?
In the United States, the national register counted 2,273 people named Perì 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, “Perì”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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