Perren
surname · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: BFS, 2024
/peren/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated
Perren is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country.
- CHSwitzerland1 in 7.9K(measured from records)
- ARArgentina1 in 35K
- AUAustralia≈1 in 130K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 48 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.9K (inferred from the name graph)
1,287 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Switzerland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Perren 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | 1,287 | 1 in 35K | 1.3K | Perren | 48 |
| CH Switzerland | 1,059 | 1 in 7.9K | 1.1K | Perren | 8 |
| US United States | 386 | 1 in 862K | 414 | Perren | 30 |
| GB United Kingdom | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 204K | 524 | Perren | 10 |
| AU Australia | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 132K | 1 | — | — |
| PY Paraguay | ≈13 est. | ≈1 in 527K | — | Perren | 5 |
1,287 people counted by RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national). 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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Gottlieb Perrenb. 1926CHSwiss alpine skier (1926-2014)
- Bernhard Perrenb. 1928CHSwiss alpine skier (1928-1960)
- Stephan M. Perrenb. 1932CHSwiss surgeon
- Ernesto Perrenb. 1942CHSwiss author
- Freddie Perrenb. 1943USAmerican songwriter, musician, record producer (1943–2004)
- Diego Perrenb. 1965CHSwiss male curler
- Clinton Perrenb. 1975AUAustralian cricketer
- Irina Perrenb. 1980RURussian ballet dancer
- Fabricio Perrenb. 1988ARArgentine motorcycle racer
- Jeff PerrenAmerican game designer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.3K | — |
| CH Switzerland | BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames) | 2024 | 1.1K | #1,122 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 524 | #10,969 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 414 | #48,021 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 398 | #55,632 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 386 | #53,538 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Perren?
- In Spanish /peren/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- In which country does Perren have the most bearers?
- In Argentina, the national register counted about 1.3 thousand people named Perren, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled perren.
- Where is Perren most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Perren is densest in Switzerland — about 1 in 7.9 thousand people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Perren?
- In Argentina, the national register counted 1,287 people named Perren, about 1 in 35 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/perrenThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Perren”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.