girls:
275 births since 1915
#5441 (5th percentile)
boys:
3k births since 1915
#2277 (50th percentile)
overall:
3.3k births since 1915
#4750 (39th percentile)
The name Pernell is the #4,750 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,306 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 38.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 38.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,277 (50.3% percentile) for all time with 3,031 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,441 (4.8% percentile) for all time with 275 births since 1915.
Pernell first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 . Birth data for Pernell is available in 108 out of the 109 years between 1915 and 2023 (108 years for boys and 36 years for girls). 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 Pernell has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Pernell reached its peak popularity in 1964, achieving the 25.0% percentile (ranked #496) with 88 births per million. The name was most common in 1964, with 88 births per million (ranked 25.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Pernell ranks #910 for boys (0.1% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 3.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Pernell reached its peak popularity in 1933, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #564) with 13 births per million. The name was most common in 1933, with 13 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1972.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Pernell".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Pernell. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 75.0% confident that Pernell is pronounced as per-NEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is PER-nuhl, at 15.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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