Pearlie — girls' name

What the Data Says About Pearlie

The Social Security Administration has registered 18,129 babies named Pearlie between 1880 and 2023, spanning 144 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pearlie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1937, when 390 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pearlie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 3,471 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Pearlie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 2,247 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Alabama and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Pearlie in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pearlie 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 18,129 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.