Perlie — unisex name

What the Data Says About Perlie

The Social Security Administration has registered 565 babies named Perlie between 1889 and 1960, spanning 72 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Perlie currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1960. The name reached its historical peak in 1922, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Perlie is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 73 additional births since 1913.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Perlie performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 175 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Perlie shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Mississippi, which accounts for 26 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Perlie in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Perlie 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 565 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.