2025 rank (boys)
#12,008
Babies named in 2025
5
Peak popularity
1923
2025 frequency
1 in 341,615 boys
Usually for
Boys
Trend
Holding steady
Holding steady, #12,008 for boys today.
Popularity of Pericles since 1921
Babies named Pericles per year in U.S. Social Security records. Raw births topped out in 1965, but relative to how few babies were recorded back then, Pericles's real moment was 1923.
Data table (by decade)
| Decade | Boys |
|---|---|
| 1920s | 21 |
| 1930s | 0 |
| 1940s | 0 |
| 1950s | 0 |
| 1960s | 13 |
| 1970s | 20 |
| 1980s | 5 |
| 1990s | 6 |
| 2000s | 5 |
| 2010s | 0 |
| 2020s | 16 |
