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)
The name Pearl is the #461 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 162,297 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #251 (95.6% percentile) for all time with 158,376 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #1,971 (57.0% percentile) for all time with 3,921 births since 1880.
Pearl has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880
The name Pearl has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 97.6% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Pearl reached its peak popularity in 1900, achieving the 93.5% percentile (ranked #24) with 7,906 births per million. The name was most common in 1890, with 8,633 births per million (ranked 92.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Pearl ranks #623 for girls (34.2% percentile) with 197 births per million, which is 2.3% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Pearl reached its peak popularity in 1886, achieving the 32.4% percentile (ranked #143) with 613 births per million. The name was most common in 1886, with 613 births per million (ranked 32.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1983.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pearl".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Pearl. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Pearl is pronounced as perl, which has 1 syllables.
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