Pearline

Where Pearline comes from

Coined at the end of the 19th century from Pearl + -ine. Compare Pauline, Earline.
— Wiktionary's entry for Pearline
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1889
    First appearance
    #1,279 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1933
    Peak, #485
    171 babies named Pearline — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1950
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,001.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name originating as a coinage.
Namesakes

No widely known Pearline 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.