Pearl Girl
How popular is Pearl?
#776 girl name in 2025
350 baby girls were named Pearl in the US in 2025, making it the 776th most popular girl name.
Pearl popularity over time
Boys Girls
| Rank in 2025 | #776 for girls (▲ 25 from 2024) |
|---|---|
| Babies in 2025 | 350 girls |
| 10-year trend | Falling (-24% babies vs 2015) |
| Earlier ranks | #624 in 2015, #776 in 2020 |
| Peak year | 1918 (4,521 girls) |
| Highest rank | #24 in 1889 (3 years at that rank) |
| First recorded | 1880 |
| Boys vs girls (last 10 years) | 0% boys, 100% girls |
| Chance a classmate shares it | 0.3% in a class of 25 kids born in 2025 |
Pearl counting every spelling
Social Security counts each spelling as its own name. Adding together the spellings that sound alike, the Pearl family of names ranked #696 for girls in 2025 (#715 the year before), with 382 babies in all.
| Spelling | Girls in 2025 | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Pearl | 350 | 92% |
| Perl | 32 | 8% |
Spellings are grouped by how they sound, using our own rules, so a few groupings may not match how your family says the name.
Where Pearl is most popular
Babies named Pearl per 1,000 girls born in each state, 2021 to 2025. Darker means more common.
Pearl by decade
| Decade | Baby girls | Best rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 10,903 | #24 |
| 1890s | 19,054 | #24 |
| 1900s | 20,913 | #24 |
| 1910s | 33,834 | #39 |
| 1920s | 32,774 | #62 |
| 1930s | 13,295 | #121 |
| 1940s | 7,778 | #191 |
| 1950s | 4,757 | #320 |
| 1960s | 2,594 | #505 |
| 1970s | 1,471 | #804 |
| 1980s | 1,639 | #824 |
| 1990s | 1,508 | #1,054 |
| 2000s | 2,238 | #983 |
| 2010s | 4,160 | #567 |
| 2020s | 2,170 | #740 |
Girl names about as popular as Pearl
Questions
- Is Pearl a boy or girl name?
- Pearl is mostly a girl name. Over the last 10 years, 100% of babies named Pearl were girls.
- How popular is the name Pearl?
- 350 baby girls were named Pearl in the US in 2025, making it the 776th most popular girl name.
- When was Pearl most popular?
- Pearl peaked in 1918, when 4,521 girls were given the name. Its highest rank was #24, held for 3 years starting in 1889.
- How many people are named Pearl?
- 163,010 babies have been named Pearl in the US since 1880. We estimate about 29,180 of them are alive in 2026, with a median age of 64.
- Where is Pearl most popular?
- From 2021 to 2025, Pearl was most common in New York, at 0.6 of every 1,000 girls born there.
Source: Social Security Administration baby name data, 1880 to 2025 (names given to at least 5 babies of a sex in a year). Living-people and median-age figures are our estimates using US life tables. How we calculate.