girls:
1.7k births since 1884
#4074 (29th percentile)
boys:
208 births since 1912
#4378 (4th percentile)
overall:
1.9k births since 1884
#5864 (24th percentile)
The name Pearly is the #5,864 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,897 recorded births since 1884. This represents the 24.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 24.2% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,074 (28.7% percentile) for all time with 1,689 births since 1884. For boys, it ranks #4,378 (4.5% percentile) for all time with 208 births since 1912.
Pearly first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1884 (1884 for girls and 1912 for boys). Birth data for Pearly is available in 85 out of the 139 years between 1884 and 2022 (85 years for girls and 29 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 Pearly has been given predominantly to girls, with 89.0% of all recorded births being female. In 2022, 100.0% of babies named Pearly were girls.
For girls, Pearly reached its peak popularity in 1924, achieving the 7.9% percentile (ranked #562) with 41 births per million. The name was most common in 1884, with 58 births per million (ranked 1.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
For boys, Pearly reached its peak popularity in 1941, achieving the 1.1% percentile (ranked #520) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1912, with 13 births per million (ranked 0.3% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1962.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pearly".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Pearly is pronounced as PER-lee, which has 2 syllables.
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