Perle
UnisexGirls' nameBoys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Perle has been given to 329 babies in the U.S. since 1886. 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 1916, with 13 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 74% girls, 26% boys all-time.
Babies named Perle, 1935
1 in 348,000
Perle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Perle over time
In 1945, Perle went to 0% girls and 100% 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 Perle?
Perle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1935, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1935
- 1 in 348,000
- 6 of 2,089,888 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 175,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1935
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 241,434 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Perle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1935 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 241,434 children born in 1935 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Perle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Perles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Perle was born before 1914 — so the typical Perle is around 111 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1910s
- 34.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 59.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1910s — 34.6% of all recorded uses (84).
Is Perle 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 1916 (13)
- Years since peak
- 109
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.3% average annual change
Spellings of Perle
Perle is not the most common spelling — Pearl is, with 52.8% against Perle's 0.08%.
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 Perle is used
Across 1910–2025, Perle was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,501,280 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1New York1 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. Perle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Perle around the world
Where Perle 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 & Wales2011–2011#5,785in 2011
- France1921–2025#925in 2025
- Canada2005–2022#3,322in 2022
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Perle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a girl's name
Names similar to Perle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Perle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.