# Pearlie (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/pearlie/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 18,828 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 699 / 18,129 (96% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1984 | 7 | 8,866 |
| 1985 | 9 | 7,387 |
| 1986 | 6 | 10,498 |
| 1987 | 6 | 10,860 |
| 1988 | 7 | 10,055 |
| 1989 | 9 | 8,543 |
| 1990 | 19 | 5,006 |
| 1991 | 7 | 11,156 |
| 1992 | 9 | 9,291 |
| 1994 | 5 | 15,107 |
| 2003 | 5 | 17,720 |
| 2011 | 5 | 18,891 |
| 2013 | 6 | 16,063 |
| 2015 | 9 | 11,617 |
| 2023 | 6 | 14,746 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1945 | 13 | 1,994 |
| 1947 | 7 | 3,290 |
| 1948 | 11 | 2,414 |
| 1949 | 10 | 2,570 |
| 1950 | 11 | 2,407 |
| 1951 | 7 | 3,286 |
| 1952 | 10 | 2,637 |
| 1953 | 11 | 2,498 |
| 1954 | 7 | 3,384 |
| 1955 | 5 | 4,250 |
| 1956 | 6 | 3,835 |
| 1957 | 6 | 3,874 |
| 1959 | 5 | 4,419 |
| 1962 | 6 | 3,927 |
| 1966 | 6 | 3,827 |

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.