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Pearline

Girls' name

Pearl with the suffix -ine

Pearline has been given to 6,262 babies in the U.S. since 1889. 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 1927, with 187 recorded.

Babies named Pearline, 2016

1 in 734,000

Pearline 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Pearline: meaning, origin, and history

Pearl with the suffix -ine

coinages

What Pearline means

Pearline is formed from Pearl with the suffix -ine.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

Coined at the end of the 19th century from Pearl + -ine.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Pearline (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Pearline is used in English. Its origins include coinages.

Pearline is a modern formation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Pearl.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,262 girls were recorded with the name Pearline between 1889 and 2016. Its highest annual count was 187 in 1927; its best national rank was #485 in 1933.

How common is Pearline?

Pearline had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2016, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2016
1 in 734,000
5 of 3,669,531 births
Among girls only
1 in 354,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2016
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
508,706 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Pearline 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 2016 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 508,706 children born in 2016 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Pearline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Pearlines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Pearline was born before 1933 — so the typical Pearline is around 92 today.

Median birth year
1933
About 92 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
24.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
0.32%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,238
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 24.5% of all recorded uses (1,534).

Is Pearline 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1927 (187)
Years since peak
98
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
40.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#485
1933

Spellings of Pearline

Pearline is not the most common spelling — Pauline is, with 68.6% against Pearline's 1.9%.

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 Pearline is used

Across 1910–2025, Pearline was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 3,333 girls, against 1 in 17,611 across all states with data. It was least common in New York (1 in —).

030 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Mississippi1 in 3,333
  2. 2South Carolina1 in 3,846
  3. 3Arkansas1 in 4,762
  4. 4Alabama1 in 7,143
  5. 5North Carolina1 in 9,091
  6. 6Georgia1 in 10,000
  7. 7Louisiana1 in 14,286
  8. 8Tennessee1 in 14,286

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. Pearline has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Pearline around the world

Where Pearline 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.

  • France
    2003–2010
    #6,558
    in 2010

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Pearline in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Pearline. Linked forms have their own page here.

PearlPerlaEarlinePerlinePearlina

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Pearline 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
#485
1933
Peak year
1927
187 that year
First recorded
1889
Last recorded
2016
All-time count
6,262
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Pearline

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

CharlineEmmelineCoralineSunshineEmmalineMadalineGermaineRosalineKarolineJoselineDelphineJackelineMarcelineKathrineJazzmineMaurinePearleneCelestineAugustineEmelineJeannineMadelaineEvelineCathrine

Names with a curve like Pearline

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

ArdisLavonVerlaArdithMargarettBennieLoyceCletaOuidaBelvaNoreneLorine

Sibling names for Pearline

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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