US BIRTHS · 1880–2025

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Pearl name popularity

Pearl has been given to 163,010 babies in the United States since 1880.

It peaked in 1918, when 4,622 babies got the name, and its best rank was #33 in 1897.

In 2025, 350 babies were named Pearl (#1,511 in the country), 92% below the peak. That is down 24% from 2015.

About 98% of babies named Pearl were girls and 2% were boys.

An estimated 27K people named Pearl are alive in the US today, with a median age of 61.

It was a top-100 name in 39 of the 146 years on record.

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The chart is the number of US babies given the name each year, from the Social Security Administration’s public baby-name files (names given to 5+ babies in a year). The “all-time high” is the name’s biggest year. “Holders” and “median holder age” are rough estimates that apply average US survival rates to each birth year, so they ignore immigration and name changes.

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