Pearlean
Pearlean is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 193937 births
- Best rank
- —never in the top 1,000
- Since 1907
- 1,066people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,066 girls have been named Pearlean in the United States since 1907, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1939, with 37 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 37 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1930s alone account for 28%.
By decade
In 1939, its biggest year
Pearlean was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1939 were Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Betty and Shirley. See all of 1939.
Names that rose and fell with Pearlean
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Nelvapeak 1935
- Blondellpeak 1934
- Eloispeak 1935
- Loycepeak 1933
- Inellpeak 1927
- Earlinepeak 1927
- Pearlenepeak 1938
- Erlenepeak 1930
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.