Pearlina — girls' name

What the Data Says About Pearlina

The Social Security Administration has registered 168 babies named Pearlina between 1914 and 2018, spanning 105 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pearlina currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2018. The name reached its historical peak in 1925, when 13 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pearlina performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 66 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Pearlina shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Pearlina in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pearlina 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 168 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.