Perlie
Perlie was last recorded in 1960, when 8 babies were given it; 638 Americans have been recorded with it between 1889 and 1960 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Perlie by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Perlie?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #5,074, in 1960; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
29 babies in 1922, the peak
Perlie peaked in 1922, when 29 babies were given it (22 girls, #1,883 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | 8 | #5,074 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,658 | under 5 | |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,907 | under 5 | |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,149 | under 5 | |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,829 | under 5 | |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,665 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,912 | under 5 | |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,933 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,615 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 9 | #3,432 | under 5 |
Every recorded year (55)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1942 | 5 | #5,204 | under 5 | |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,360 | under 5 | |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,768 | under 5 | |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,882 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 12 | #2,546 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,424 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,634 | 5 | #3,939 |
| 1935 | 7 | #3,672 | 5 | #4,028 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,696 | under 5 | |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,830 | 5 | #4,036 |
| 1932 | 13 | #2,463 | under 5 | |
| 1931 | 14 | #2,284 | under 5 | |
| 1930 | 10 | #3,009 | under 5 | |
| 1929 | 9 | #3,335 | 8 | #3,182 |
| 1928 | 18 | #2,079 | 6 | #4,037 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,872 | under 5 | |
| 1926 | 21 | #1,917 | under 5 | |
| 1925 | 18 | #2,174 | 8 | #3,326 |
| 1924 | 17 | #2,292 | under 5 | |
| 1923 | 13 | #2,694 | 6 | #4,137 |
| 1922 | 22 | #1,883 | 7 | #3,783 |
| 1921 | 17 | #2,265 | under 5 | |
| 1920 | 18 | #2,152 | under 5 | |
| 1919 | 15 | #2,358 | 5 | #4,646 |
| 1918 | 11 | #2,979 | under 5 | |
| 1917 | 10 | #3,034 | 5 | #4,438 |
| 1916 | 15 | #2,221 | under 5 | |
| 1915 | 6 | #4,157 | 8 | #3,005 |
| 1914 | 9 | #2,589 | under 5 | |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,108 | 5 | #3,150 |
| 1912 | 7 | #2,579 | under 5 | |
| 1911 | 8 | #1,924 | under 5 | |
| 1910 | 13 | #1,320 | under 5 | |
| 1909 | 10 | #1,455 | under 5 | |
| 1908 | 8 | #1,650 | under 5 | |
| 1905 | 7 | #1,659 | under 5 | |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,623 | under 5 | |
| 1903 | 7 | #1,553 | under 5 | |
| 1900 | 9 | #1,406 | under 5 | |
| 1898 | 8 | #1,356 | under 5 | |
| 1896 | 9 | #1,193 | under 5 | |
| 1894 | 6 | #1,457 | under 5 | |
| 1892 | 6 | #1,415 | under 5 | |
| 1891 | 5 | #1,496 | under 5 | |
| 1889 | 5 | #1,444 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Perlie a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 638 Americans recorded as Perlie, 89% are girls and 11% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Perlie: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Perlie, and how old are they?
An estimated 86 Americans named Perlie and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 136 people named Perlie (100 women and girls, 36 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 139 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 6 names spelled alike, given to 43,682 babies since 1880, Perlie is the fourth most given (1.5% of them). In 2025 none of their 132 babies recorded by SSA was a Perlie (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Perlie
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Perlie and names like it
- Compare Perlie and PerlaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1920sPerlie peaked in 1922.
- Mississippi’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Perlie since 1910.
- The top names of 1922The year the most babies were named Perlie.
- Names starting with PMost given first.