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It's ehh, okay. Mixed impression.
Sounds just like Perry, which is kind of preppy surname, so there's that vibe about it - seems similar to Teri or Jeri in the 1960s.
I like Teri, though, and I think in real life if I met a Peri I would think it was nice. NMS exactly, but nice.
Considering whether I'd personally favorite it as a name, though ... mostly it reminds me a lot of "peri bottle" (perineal wash bottle or bidet bottle, used postpartum) - that ruins it for me, tbh. And there's the Doctor Who thing, which makes it seem a tad geeky. I don't like the "fairy" meaning.

It reminds me of the boy name Perry in my opinion.

Pari looks a lot more like a name. Peri just looks like Perry. I wonder how you say it though.

This message was edited 1/16/2024, 2:39 PM

My first thoughts is peri peri

It's ok. I was thinking today that I like Perian and Periann (those showed up briefly/rarely in the US in the early 1960s). I'd probably pick Periann over Parisa, Parisa over Peri, Peri over Paris, Peri over Teri...but it'd bug me slightly that Perian is a name for Hobbits plus that Peri in mythology are "fallen" and require penance...maybe I'd pick Peregrine over Parisa even though I prefer that as masculine (though it's used about a third of the time as feminine anyway), so that the other associations seemed more distant...although I'd still probably prefer Periann... or else I'd go with Perrie because I like the "pear tree" etymology.

This message was edited 1/16/2024, 5:01 AM

Looks like a failed attempt to make Perry look daintily feminine! Avoid.

It’s fine as a nickname like others have mentioned. I prefer Parisa.

This message was edited 1/15/2024, 2:02 PM

Sounds ok but I think it doesn't work in a mostly English-speaking area because I'm used to Peri just being a Greek prefix for words. As a name I'd want it to be short for something else. Perica, Persephone, Perikleia, Perdita, Pernilla, Perrine, Perpetua, Peronel, Persea

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ETA: I also think it's totally legit to use a long name and a nickname that happens to be a full name in its own right, and the baby basically gets two name meanings for the price of one. So like Persephone "Peri" would be named for both the Greek goddess and the Turkish name meaning "fairy".

This message was edited 1/15/2024, 1:36 PM

I don't care for that.

Don't like it

I like it