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Pearle

Girls' name

Variant of Pearl

Pearle has been given to 2,821 babies in the U.S. since 1880. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1919, with 103 recorded.

Babies named Pearle, 2018

1 in 586,000

Pearle over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pearle: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Pearl

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Pearle means

Pearle is a variant of Pearl.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Pearle is used in English.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈpɜɹl/ and /ˈpɜːl/ for Pearle.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Pearle → Pearl. The family’s meaning is “pearl water”, recorded in English with the source elements Momi.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pearl.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,821 girls were recorded with the name Pearle between 1880 and 2018. Its highest annual count was 103 in 1919; its best national rank was #282 in 1886.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Pearle?

Pearle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2018, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2018
1 in 586,000
6 of 3,516,853 births
Among girls only
1 in 283,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2018
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
406,284 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pearle sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2018 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 406,284 children born in 2018 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pearle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pearles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pearle was born before 1911 — so the typical Pearle is around 114 today.

Median birth year
1911
About 114 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
25.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.82%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
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1910s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (715).

Is Pearle rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1919 (103)
Years since peak
106
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
29.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#282
1886

Spellings of Pearle

Pearle is not the most common spelling — Pearl is, with 67.8% against Pearle's 1.2%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Pearle is used

Across 1910–2025, Pearle was most concentrated in Pennsylvania — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 170,129 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 50,000
  3. 3Iowa1 in 100,000
  4. 4Kansas1 in 100,000
  5. 5Montana1 in 100,000
  6. 6North Carolina1 in 100,000
  7. 7Nebraska1 in 100,000
  8. 8Virginia1 in 100,000

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Pearle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pearle around the world

Where Pearle ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2012–2020
    #5,493
    in 2020
  • France
    2008–2008
    #5,529
    in 2008

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Pearle by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#282
1886
Peak year
1919
103 that year
First recorded
1880
Last recorded
2018
All-time count
2,821
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pearle

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

PearlaPearlyPeacePearlenePeachesMyrlePearleyPearlineMerlePearleanPearliePearcePeachPearleePearlKimberlePearlenaVerlePearsonPeachieAmberleEarleCharlePearlina

Names with a curve like Pearle

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Pearle, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

HilmaCordieBellTennieNelleMyrtieEthylLudieMathildaHuldaZulaMabelle

Sibling names for Pearle

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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