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Pearlean

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Pearlean is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
fewer than 5 births
Births in 2024
0not in the data
Peak year
193937 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1907
1,066people given the name
Babies named Pearlean, by year of birthgirls
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The story in the numbers

1,066 girls have been named Pearlean in the United States since 1907, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1939, with 37 births.

The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 37 at the peak.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1935, and the 1930s alone account for 28%.

By decade

Decadegirls named Pearlean
1900s20
1910s123
1920s211
1930s296
1940s217
1950s155
1960s44

In 1939, its biggest year

Pearlean was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1939 were Mary, Barbara, Patricia, Betty and Shirley. See all of 1939.

Names that rose and fell with Pearlean

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.