Perla

Where Perla comes from

Perla hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1918
    First appearance
    #3,869 among girls, 7 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1937
    Perla Cristal born
    Argentine actress
  3. 1997
    Perla Haney-Jardine born
    Brazilian-American actress
  4. 2003
    Peak, #282
    1,109 babies named Perla — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2010
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #607.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Perla Haney-Jardine · Brazilian-American actress, born 1997
  • Perla Cristal · Argentine actress, born 1937
  • Perla Suez · Argentinian writer, born 1948
  • Perla Batalla · American singer, born 1950
  • Perla Liberatori · Italian voice actress, born 1981

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.