Pearlie
Pearlie is a girl's name that peaked in 1937, when it was the 315th most popular in the United States. It has not appeared in the national data since 2023. About 5,500 Pearlies are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 76.
Popularity, 1880–2025
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By the numbers
- Total US births
- 18,828
- Estimated living today
- 5,500
- Median age today
- 76
- Peak year
- 1937
- Best rank
- 315th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 18,129 / 699
How old the living Pearlies are
born that year still alive today
Of the 18,828 babies given the name since 1880, about 5,500 are alive — 29 in every hundred. Roughly 30 of them are children and 4,600 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1949 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where Pearlie is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Pearlie is most concentrated in Mississippi (12.4×), Alabama (7.4×), Arkansas (6.5×), Georgia (4.2×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1937
The most popular girls’ names the year Pearlie peaked:
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Pearlie against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.