Pearl

girls:

158.4k births since 1880

#251 (96th percentile)

boys:

3.9k births since 1880

#1971 (57th percentile)

overall:

162.3k births since 1880

#461 (94th percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pearl".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
158,376
Peak Births
4,521
Peak Year
1900
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
93.5%
Current Percentile
34.2%
Peak Rank
#24
Current Rank
#623
Female statistics
Total Births
3,921
Peak Births
101
Peak Year
1886
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
32.4%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#140
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Pearl

Our model found one way to pronounce the name Pearl. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 100.0% confident that Pearl is pronounced as perl.

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100.0%
perl (1 syllable)
Verified
100.0% confidence
P ER1 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Pearl. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Pearl, please vote using the thumbs up button.

PER-lah (2 syllables)
1 name 20.5k births
P ER1 L AA0

Names with this pronunciation:

PER-uhl (2 syllables)
2 names 891 births
P ER1 AH0 L

Names with this pronunciation:

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like P ER1 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.