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Pearl
Rank in 2024
#800
Born in 2024
350
Peak year
1918 · #56
Origin
English
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
SteadyIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 350 girls were named Pearl, about 1 in every 4,609.
- It peaked in 1918 with 4,521 babies, ranked #56.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 158,735 girls have been named Pearl since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Pearl per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 3.9Greatest1901–27
- 1.1Silent1928–45
- 0.3Boomers1946–64
- 0.1Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- 0.1Gen Z1997–12
- 0.2Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 80,470 babies, 3.93 per 1,000. Silent: 22,957 babies, 1.11 per 1,000. Boomers: 9,062 babies, 0.25 per 1,000. Gen X: 2,583 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,514 babies, 0.09 per 1,000. Gen Z: 3,672 babies, 0.13 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 5,008 babies, 0.25 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From pearl. (river in China): From Chinese 珠江 (Zhūjiāng, Zyu1 Gong1, “Pearl River”); calque of Chinese 珠 (zhū, zyu1, “pearl”). (haven in Hawaii): From Hawaiian Wai Momi (“pearl water”); calque of Hawaiian momi (“pearl”).
- A unisex given name from English.
- A female given name from English.
- (rare) A male given name from English.
- Origin
- English
- Say it
- Not recorded
From Wiktionary’s entry for Pearl, CC BY-SA 4.0.