Pearly
Pearly is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 839th, in 1884.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192453 births
- Best rank
- #839in 1884
- Since 1884
- 1,897people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,689 girls have been named Pearly in the United States since 1884, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1924, with 53 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 53 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1933, and the 1920s alone account for 22%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 208 boys have also been given it, 11% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Pearly | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 20 | |
| 1890s | 60 | |
| 1900s | 93 | |
| 1910s | 199 | |
| 1920s | 366 | |
| 1930s | 336 | |
| 1940s | 318 | |
| 1950s | 197 | |
| 1960s | 55 | |
| 1970s | 7 | |
| 1980s | 5 | |
| 2010s | 21 | |
| 2020s | 12 |
In 1924, its biggest year
Pearly was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five girls’ names of 1924 were Mary, Dorothy, Helen, Betty and Margaret. See all of 1924.
Names that rose and fell with Pearly
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Williapeak 1928
- Lavadapeak 1921
- Retapeak 1946
- Annicepeak 1918
- Lenorepeak 1926
- Faypeak 1926
- Rebapeak 1925
- Janniepeak 1924
Other spellings in the data
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.