Pearle — girls' name

What the Data Says About Pearle

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,821 babies named Pearle between 1880 and 2018, spanning 139 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pearle currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1919, when 103 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pearle performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 715 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Pearle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 193 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by North Carolina and South Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Pearle in 14 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pearle 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 2,821 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.