Pearla
Pearla was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,862 among girls’ names; 559 Americans have been recorded with it since 1883 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pearla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Pearla?
#12,862 among girls’ names, 2025
Pearla fell from #8,329 in 2015 to #12,862 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 7.8 to 4.4 per million.
25 babies in 2006, the peak
Pearla peaked in 2006, when 25 girls were given it, #5,506 among girls’ names. The 7 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,862 | 4.4 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,857 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,941 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,242 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,924 | 4.9 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,390 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,197 | 3.5 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,755 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 13 | #8,754 | 7.3 |
| 2015 | 14 | #8,329 | 7.8 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 13 | #8,843 | 7.3 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,824 | 5.7 |
| 2012 | 12 | #9,575 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,469 | 4.0 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,293 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,385 | 4.4 |
| 2008 | 8 | #13,500 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 16 | #8,006 | 8.3 |
| 2006 | 25 | #5,506 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,810 | 8.1 |
| 2004 | 18 | #6,690 | 9.8 |
| 2003 | 13 | #8,362 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #7,725 | 7.8 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,793 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 9 | #10,521 | 5.0 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,645 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,614 | 8.5 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,724 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,272 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,247 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 9 | #9,384 | 5.0 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,911 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,389 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,148 | 3.7 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,574 | 2.6 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,644 | 6.3 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,940 | 2.9 |
| 1984 | 8 | #7,939 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,923 | 4.1 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,633 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 11 | #6,047 | 6.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #10,940 | 3.3 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,772 | 3.3 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,719 | 4.1 |
| 1963 | 5 | #7,351 | 2.6 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,369 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 7 | #5,251 | 3.4 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,387 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 5 | #6,487 | 2.6 |
| 1950 | 7 | #4,635 | 4.1 |
| 1942 | 8 | #3,657 | 5.9 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,761 | 6.3 |
| 1936 | 5 | #4,715 | 4.8 |
| 1933 | 6 | #4,116 | 6.0 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,303 | 5.6 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,832 | 4.7 |
| 1929 | 6 | #4,459 | 5.4 |
| 1925 | 5 | #5,602 | 4.1 |
| 1924 | 5 | #5,716 | 4.0 |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,848 | 5.0 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,618 | 4.2 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,474 | 5.5 |
| 1909 | 6 | #2,166 | 17.3 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,621 | 25.4 |
| 1883 | 6 | #900 | 53.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pearla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pearla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 65 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pearla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pearla, and how old are they?
An estimated 466 Americans named Pearla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 15 and 34. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 637 people named Pearla (637 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 444 born in the U.S. The Census count is 43% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 46,351 babies since 1880, Pearla is the sixth most given (1.2% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 139 babies (5.0%), the second most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
More about Pearla and names like it
- Compare Pearla and PerlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Pearla since 1910.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Pearla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Pearla alive today were born 1997-2012.
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