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Pearl

Rank in 2024
unranked
Born in 2024
0
Peak year
1918 · #612
Origin
English
Also recorded for girls:350 in 2024 (#800)

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • No boys were recorded as Pearl in 2024; the SSA lists names only when 5 or more babies get them.
  • It peaked in 1918 with 101 babies, ranked #612.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 3,922 boys 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.

  1. <0.1
    Greatest
  2. <0.1
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. 0
    Gen Z
  7. 0
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 1,644 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Silent: 841 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Boomers: 284 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 74 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Millennials: 5 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Z: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 0 babies, 0.00 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.