Pearleen
Pearleen was last recorded in 1955, when 6 babies were given it; 51 Americans have been recorded with it between 1914 and 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Pearleen by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Pearleen mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Pearleen is “a female given name originating as a coinage.”
A very rare variant of Pearline.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Pearleen?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,676, in 1955; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
8 babies in 1925, the peak
Pearleen peaked in 1925, when 8 girls were given it, #3,952 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | 6 | #5,676 | 3.1 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,839 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 5 | #4,776 | 4.7 |
| 1934 | 8 | #3,395 | 7.7 |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,674 | 6.9 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,222 | 5.9 |
| 1925 | 8 | #3,952 | 6.6 |
| 1914 | 5 | #4,068 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Pearleen a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Pearleen has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 8 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Pearleen: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Pearleen, and how old are they?
An estimated 11 Americans named Pearleen and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
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.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,117 babies since 1880, Pearleen is the second most given (4.6% of them).
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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Pearleen
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1910-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Ardeth | 1,033 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Pearleen and names like it
- Compare Pearleen and PearleanBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sPearleen peaked in 1925.
- Coined namesWiktionary’s origin for Pearleen: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1925The year the most babies were named Pearleen.
- Names starting with PMost given first.