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The name Pearl is of English origin, and means pearl. The table below indicates the number of times the name Pearl has been given to baby girls in recent years. The last 125 years refers to 1880 through 2004; last year refers to 2004. The rank and count values are based on U.S. Social Security Administration counts for the one thousand most popular names given to baby girls in each of these years.

**Cumulative Usage Chart for the Name Pearl**
Use of the Name Pearl for Girls During the Last ...
125 Years	50 Years	25 Years	10 Years	5 Years	2 Years	1 Year
148,234	7,127	1,206	0	0	0	0

The table below indicates the number of times the name Pearl has been given to baby girls and baby boys each year, from 1880 through 2004. Pearl last appeared in the top thousand girl or boy names during 1986, the last year shown on the table. A blank entry indicates that the name did not rank among the top one thousand names given to girls or boys, respectively, during the specified year.

**Yearly Usage Chart for the Name Pearl**
	Used as a Girl Name		Used as a Boy Name
Year	Rank	Count	Rank	Count
1880	47	569	197	62
1881	38	641	213	52
1882	33	824	216	58
1883	29	886	200	57
1884	25	1,138	212	62
1885	26	1,146	212	57
1886	29	1,204	186	73
1887	25	1,316	191	64
1888	26	1,591	213	69
1889	24	1,587	230	50
1890	24	1,741	245	48
1891	27	1,605	304	31
1892	26	1,831	296	39
1893	26	1,796	219	62
1894	28	1,789	234	55
1895	26	1,958	267	45
1896	25	2,101	310	37
1897	25	2,076	267	44
1898	26	2,158	303	39
1899	27	1,999	334	29
1900	24	2,512	337	42
1901	31	1,866	283	38
1902	28	2,099	334	35
1903	27	2,046	316	36
1904	30	2,015	376	30
1905	31	2,107	401	29
1906	35	2,034	362	34
1907	35	2,107	372	37
1908	39	2,076	393	36
1909	40	2,041	375	41
1910	39	2,172	613	23
1911	48	2,068	521	33
1912	54	2,524	553	53
1913	55	2,745	515	70
1914	56	3,213	679	57
1915	56	3,965	585	96
1916	57	4,078	722	70
1917	57	4,227	646	86
1918	56	4,522	623	98
1919	56	4,277	612	99
1920	62	4,204	666	92
1921	65	4,164	718	85
1922	71	3,845	744	79
1923	78	3,542	723	82
1924	78	3,644	711	86
1925	90	3,210	805	68
1926	95	2,896	774	71
1927	102	2,716	729	80
1928	110	2,368	710	81
1929	114	2,171	730	74
1930	121	2,065	795	66
1931	137	1,643	779	65
1932	138	1,623	986	45
1933	143	1,384	884	50
1934	154	1,337
1935	167	1,186	889	51
1936	172	1,120	993	41
1937	187	1,020	951	44
1938	189	1,006	958	44
1939	197	903	896	49
1940	197	906
1941	212	830
1942	191	1,091
1943	225	873
1944	238	753
1945	263	662
1946	279	679
1947	296	706
1948	290	695
1949	324	572
1950	320	589
1951	347	531
1952	363	519
1953	377	512
1954	390	492
1955	407	463
1956	420	469
1957	448	442
1958	480	391
1959	522	347
1960	505	369
1961	523	346
1962	510	363
1963	589	285
1964	587	285
1965	596	260
1966	701	195
1967	738	176
1968	761	171
1969	882	143
1970	841	161
1971	846	163
1972	808	168
1973	889	142
1974	873	149
1975	899	147
1976	916	143
1977
1978
1979	999	143
1980	897	168
1981	851	183
1982	833	188
1983	895	170
1984	888	168
1985	944	166
1986	967	163
Totals:		148,234		3,329

During the last 125 years, parents have used Pearl as a girl's name about 97% of the time and less frequently (about 2% of the time) as a boy's name. Cumulative counts and total counts shown on the above tables are slightly lower than actual counts because the name Pearl appears in the top 1,000 girl names only 105 times during the last 125 years.

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