Pairlee — girls' name
187 babies named Pairlee in U.S. Social Security records since 1885, with the highest year being 1911. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
35% of everyone ever named Pairlee was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Pairlee in 1911 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Pairlee
The Social Security Administration has registered 187 babies named Pairlee between 1885 and 1927, spanning 43 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pairlee currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1927. The name reached its historical peak in 1911, when 10 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Pairlee performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 65 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Pairlee shows a stable profile with only moderate drift from its peak decade. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Arkansas, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Pairlee in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Pairlee in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 187 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Pairlee at a glance
Last recorded 1927Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Pairlee popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1927–1885
- Peak year (1911)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 43 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1927.
187 total births across 43 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1911 with 10 births in a single year.
Pairlee by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1910s
- 65 births that decade — 35% of Pairlee's all-time total
Pairlee decade highlights
- Peak decade 65 births
- Runner-up 46 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1910s was Pairlee's strongest decade
65 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 35% of all-time use.
Pairlee by state
Where Pairlee concentrates geographically — total births since 1885
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Arkansas | | 5 | 2.7% |
5 of 187 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Arkansas 2.7% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Arkansas accounts for 2.7% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1885–1927 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.