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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Pearly

Recorded for both sexesSilent Generation

2025 rank

—

not recorded in 2025

2025 births

—

All-time births

1,689

peak year 1924

More common than

93%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1924
53 births
Best rank
#839
in 1884
First recorded
1884
#839 that year
Last recorded
2022
no later published record
Average birth year
1934
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
85 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 192453#1,077Peak
  2. 192546#1,148
  3. 193441#1,120
  4. 193741#1,128
  5. 194141#1,180

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #839 in 1884 · peak births 53 in 1924

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 11% boys■ 89% girls

208 boys · 1,689 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Pearly has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.