Perlean
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Perlean has been given to 25 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1915, with 5 recorded.
Babies named Perlean, 1946
1 in 639,000
Perlean 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Perlean?
Perlean had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1946, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1946
- 1 in 639,000
- 5 of 3,195,175 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 314,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1946
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 442,946 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Perlean sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1946 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 442,946 children born in 1946 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Perlean. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Perleans were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Perlean was born before 1932 — so the typical Perlean is around 93 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 40.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 80.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 0
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (10).
Is Perlean 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 1915 (5)
- Years since peak
- 110
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Not enough data
- Too few years
Spellings of Perlean
Perlean is not the most common spelling — Perla is, with 70.8% against Perlean's 0.09%.
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.
Perlean by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Perlean
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Perlean
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.