Pearley — unisex name

What the Data Says About Pearley

The Social Security Administration has registered 673 babies named Pearley between 1885 and 1958, spanning 74 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pearley currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1958. The name reached its historical peak in 1926, when 23 babies received it in a single year. Pearley is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 178 additional births since 1882.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pearley performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 161 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Pearley shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Arkansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Pearley in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pearley 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 673 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.