Pearlean — girls' name

What the Data Says About Pearlean

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,066 babies named Pearlean between 1907 and 1966, spanning 60 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pearlean currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1966. The name reached its historical peak in 1939, when 37 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pearlean performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 296 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Pearlean shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 240 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Arkansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Pearlean in 7 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pearlean 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 1,066 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.