Pearlie
Pearlie is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 263rd, in 1887.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1937390 births
- Best rank
- #263in 1887
- Since 1880
- 18,828people given the name
The story in the numbers
18,129 girls have been named Pearlie in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1937, with 390 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 390 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1931, and the 1920s alone account for 19%. It has spent 81 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 699 boys have also been given it, 3.7% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Pearlie | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 413 | |
| 1890s | 944 | |
| 1900s | 1,276 | |
| 1910s | 2,428 | |
| 1920s | 3,471 | |
| 1930s | 3,258 | |
| 1940s | 3,315 | |
| 1950s | 1,972 | |
| 1960s | 685 | |
| 1970s | 206 | |
| 1980s | 90 | |
| 1990s | 40 | |
| 2000s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 20 | |
| 2020s | 6 |
In 1937, its biggest year
Pearlie was the 315th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1937 were Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Shirley and Betty. See all of 1937.
Names that rose and fell with Pearlie
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Janniepeak 1924
- Netapeak 1920
- Letapeak 1918
- Nonapeak 1950
- Rosiepeak 1927
- Pansypeak 1916
- Belvapeak 1927
- Louveniapeak 1924
Other spellings in the data
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.