Perley

Where Perley comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Perley.

  • Vowel-ended
Perley through the years
  1. 1798
    Perley B. Johnson born
    American politician
  2. 1873
    Perley G. Nutting born
    American physicist
  3. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #403 among boys, with 18 babies in the first year on record.
  4. 1881
    Peak, #332
    24 babies named Perley, its best rank.
  5. 1882
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #611.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name transferred from the surname.
Namesakes
  • Perley G. Nutting · American physicist, 1873–1949
  • Perley B. Johnson · American politician, 1798–1870
  • Perley Dunn Aldrich · American baritone and music teacher, 1863–1933
  • Perley Poore Sheehan · American writer, 1875–1943

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.