Perle — unisex name

What the Data Says About Perle

The Social Security Administration has registered 243 babies named Perle between 1886 and 1935, spanning 50 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Perle currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1935. The name reached its historical peak in 1916, when 13 babies received it in a single year. Perle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 86 additional births since 1885.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Perle performed strongest in the 1910s, accumulating 84 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Perle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 5 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Perle in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Perle 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 243 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.