Perry

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Male Name

Usage

Swedish
Norwegian
Danish

Origin and Meaning

1) Pet form of Per ^[1]

2) English pet form of Peregrine, which is an English form of the Latin name Peregrinus meaning 'foreigner, strainger' ^{[1] [2]}

3) Deriving from the English surname Perry meaning 'living by the pear tree' ^[2]

Related Names

Perrie	♂
Perry	♂

Further Information

Earliest Documented Usage

Norway: 1860 ^[1]

Statistics

Name count per country
Country	Commonness	Female ♀		Male ♂
		as main name#	also aux. name&	as main name#	also aux. name&
Sweden[3]		1	2	216	376
Norway[4]		0	0	43	133
Denmark[5]		0	n.a.	40	n.a
Finland[6]		n.a.	3	n.a	20
#: count of main first name only
&: count of both main and additional first names
Name counts are approximate as statistics normally is not published for names given to less than 3 or 5 persons per country.

 

No recent statistics trend found in databases for Perry.

Sources: ^{[3] [5] [4] [6]}

References

1. ↑ Kristoffer Kruken og Ola Stemshaug: Norsk Personnamnleksikon (1995)
2. ↑ Patrick Hanks and Flavia Hodges: Oxford Dictionary of First Names (2003)
3. ↑ Statistiska Centralbyrån, National statistics office of Sweden, http://www.scb.se/
4. ↑ Statistisk Sentralbyrå, National statistics office of Norway, http://www.ssb.no
5. ↑ Danmarks Statistik, National statistics office of Denmark, http://www.dst.dk
6. ↑ Väestörekisterikeskus, National Population Register Centre of Finland, http://www.vrk.fi