girls:
20.5k births since 1918
#1015 (82nd percentile)
boys:
30 births since 1986
#4556 (1st percentile)
overall:
20.5k births since 1918
#1788 (77th percentile)
The name Perla is the #1,788 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 20,520 recorded births since 1918. This represents the 76.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 76.9% of all names). For girls, it ranks #1,015 (82.3% percentile) for all time with 20,490 births since 1918. For boys, it ranks #4,556 (0.6% percentile) for all time with 30 births since 1986.
Perla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1918 (1918 for girls and 1986 for boys). Birth data for Perla is available in 97 out of the 106 years between 1918 and 2023 (97 years for girls and 5 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 Perla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 99.9% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Perla reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 70.6% percentile (ranked #267) with 552 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 552 births per million (ranked 70.6% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2007, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Perla ranks #750 for girls (20.8% percentile) with 115 births per million, which is 20.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Perla reached its peak popularity in 1991, achieving the 0.4% percentile (ranked #757) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1991, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1996.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Perla".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Perla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.9% confident that Perla is pronounced as PER-luh, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PER-lah, at 9.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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