Pearline
Pearline is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 485th, in 1933.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1927187 births
- Best rank
- #485in 1933
- Since 1889
- 6,262people given the name
The story in the numbers
6,262 girls have been named Pearline in the United States since 1889, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1927, with 187 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 187 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 47 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Pearline | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1890s | 50 | |
| 1900s | 202 | |
| 1910s | 750 | |
| 1920s | 1,534 | |
| 1930s | 1,415 | |
| 1940s | 1,068 | |
| 1950s | 711 | |
| 1960s | 334 | |
| 1970s | 110 | |
| 1980s | 58 | |
| 1990s | 20 | |
| 2010s | 5 |
In 1927, its biggest year
Pearline was the 514th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1927 were Mary, Dorothy, Betty, Helen and Margaret. See all of 1927.
Names that rose and fell with Pearline
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Veltapeak 1927
- Wilmapeak 1925
- Melbapeak 1924
- Bernadinepeak 1924
- Loispeak 1927
- Loycepeak 1933
- Lavonpeak 1924
- Melvapeak 1938
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.