Perl — #5451 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Perl

The Social Security Administration has registered 583 babies named Perl between 1929 and 2024, spanning 96 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Perl currently holds the #5451 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 35 babies received it in a single year. Perl is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 85 additional births since 1883.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Perl performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 216 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Perl shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 385 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Perl in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Perl 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 583 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.