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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Per

Recorded for boysGen X

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

369

peak year 1963

More common than

79%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1963
14 births
Best rank
#2,189
in 1966
First recorded
1923
#4,137 that year
Last recorded
2020
no later published record
Average birth year
1974
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
46 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 196314#2,279Peak
  2. 196414#2,286
  3. 196614#2,189
  4. 196814#2,278
  5. 195813#2,341

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #2,189 in 1966 · peak births 14 in 1963

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Per has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.

The girls' series

No girls have been recorded with this name.

Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.