girls:
18.1k births since 1880
#1101 (81st percentile)
boys:
699 births since 1881
#3888 (15th percentile)
overall:
18.8k births since 1880
#1875 (76th percentile)
The name Pearlie is the #1,875 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 18,828 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 75.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 75.8% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,101 (80.7% percentile) for all time with 18,129 births since 1880. For boys, it ranks #3,888 (15.2% percentile) for all time with 699 births since 1881.
Pearlie has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for girls and since 1881 for boys). Birth data for Pearlie is available in 119 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (119 years for girls and 62 years for boys). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Pearlie has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 96.3% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Pearlie reached its peak popularity in 1937, achieving the 48.4% percentile (ranked #301) with 354 births per million. The name was most common in 1902, with 460 births per million (ranked 32.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Pearlie ranks #946 for girls (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 0.7% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Pearlie reached its peak popularity in 1916, achieving the 4.0% percentile (ranked #482) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 1908, with 66 births per million (ranked 2.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1966.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pearlie".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Pearlie is pronounced as PER-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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