Pearlene

Where Pearlene comes from

A variant of Pearline.
— Wiktionary's entry for Pearlene
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1906
    First appearance
    #1,951 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1938
    Peak, #875
    64 babies named Pearlene — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1956
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #2,005.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes

No widely known Pearlene turns up in the encyclopedias yet — the name is still all theirs to make famous.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.