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Peaches vs Pearle

American parents have registered 2,821 Pearles since 1880, against 754 Peacheses. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Peaches against Pearle, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Peaches Pearle

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 127 years in which either name was published, Pearle for 74 years and Peaches for 53 years. The lead changed hands 9 times.

Side by side

  Peaches Pearle
Total US births 7542,821
Most in one year 35103
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 690120
Median age today 4279
Peak year 19821919
Best rank 2,645th girls689th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19101880
Girls / boys 754 / 02,821 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Pearles alive today are over 79; half the Peacheses are over 42. That is 37 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Peaches Pearle
England and Wales 3916

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Peaches and Pearle.