Pearline — girls' name

What the Data Says About Pearline

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,262 babies named Pearline between 1889 and 2016, spanning 128 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Pearline currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2016. The name reached its historical peak in 1927, when 187 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Pearline performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 1,534 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Pearline shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 616 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by South Carolina and North Carolina. In total, SSA state-level files list Pearline in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Pearline 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 6,262 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.