Pearley
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Pearley has been given to 851 babies in the U.S. since 1885. 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 1926, with 23 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 79% girls, 21% boys all-time.
Babies named Pearley, 1958
1 in 827,000
Pearley over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Pearley over time
In 1958, Pearley went to 100% girls and 0% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Pearley?
Pearley had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1958, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1958
- 1 in 827,000
- 5 of 4,133,550 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 402,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1958
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 573,033 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Pearley sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1958 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 573,033 children born in 1958 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pearley. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Pearleys were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Pearley was born before 1928 — so the typical Pearley is around 97 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1920s
- 23.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 40.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 66
- People you could plausibly meet
1920s — 23.9% of all recorded uses (161).
Is Pearley 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1926 (23)
- Years since peak
- 99
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 38.4% average annual change
Spellings of Pearley
Pearley is not the most common spelling — Pearl is, with 55.4% against Pearley's 0.23%.
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 Pearley is used
Across 1910–2025, Pearley was most concentrated in Arkansas — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 346,445 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Arkansas1 in —
- 2Mississippi1 in —
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. Pearley has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Pearley by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Pearley
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Pearley
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.