Perla
#1,587 for girls in 2025, 132 births · Last seen for boys in 1996 at #9,015
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2003 · 1,109 births
- Debut · girls
- 7 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 20,806since 1918
Perla over time
Rank among girls' names. Perla has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,587 | 132 | — | |
| 2024 | #1,305 | 176 | — | |
| 2023 | #1,179 | 203 | — | |
| 2022 | #1,163 | 208 | — | |
| 2021 | #1,207 | 198 | — | |
| 2020 | #1,011 | 249 | — | |
| 2019 | #1,069 | 236 | — | |
| 2018 | #924 | 289 | — | |
| 2017 | #794 | 345 | — | |
| 2016 | #704 | 407 | — | |
| 2015 | #648 | 443 | — | |
| 2014 | #646 | 441 | — | |
| 2013 | #674 | 423 | — | |
| 2012 | #452 | 690 | — | |
| 2011 | #644 | 444 | — | |
| 2010 | #607 | 485 | — | |
| 2009 | #523 | 581 | — | |
| 2008 | #479 | 662 | — | |
| 2007 | #406 | 803 | — | |
| 2006 | #385 | 843 | — | |
| 2005 | #365 | 865 | — | |
| 2004 | #361 | 878 | — | |
| 2003 | #282 | 1,109 | — | |
| 2002 | #413 | 701 | — | |
| 2001 | #509 | 533 | — | |
| 2000 | #517 | 510 | — | |
| 1999 | #536 | 472 | — | |
| 1998 | #487 | 522 | — | |
| 1997 | #507 | 480 | — | |
| 1996 | #493 | 485 | #9,015 | 5 |
| 1995 | #490 | 502 | — | |
| 1994 | #517 | 482 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #513 | 478 | — | |
| 1992 | #569 | 409 | — | |
| 1991 | #578 | 400 | #5,942 | 8 |
| 1990 | #628 | 356 | #8,117 | 5 |
| 1989 | #735 | 267 | — | |
| 1988 | #819 | 222 | — | |
| 1987 | #810 | 216 | — | |
| 1986 | #763 | 227 | #6,721 | 5 |
| 1985 | #806 | 204 | — | |
| 1984 | #766 | 210 | — | |
| 1983 | #905 | 166 | — | |
| 1982 | #942 | 158 | — | |
| 1981 | #948 | 155 | — | |
| 1980 | #909 | 166 | — | |
| 1979 | #989 | 144 | — | |
| 1978 | #1,169 | 108 | — | |
| 1977 | #1,345 | 84 | — | |
| 1976 | #1,273 | 87 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,381 | 76 | — | |
| 1974 | #1,438 | 70 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,496 | 63 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,448 | 67 | — | |
| 1971 | #1,937 | 44 | — | |
| 1970 | #2,307 | 33 | — | |
| 1969 | #2,454 | 28 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,855 | 41 | — | |
| 1967 | #2,492 | 24 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,191 | 29 | — | |
| 1965 | #2,684 | 21 | — | |
| 1964 | #2,246 | 29 | — | |
| 1963 | #2,306 | 27 | — | |
| 1962 | #2,031 | 33 | — | |
| 1961 | #2,299 | 27 | — | |
| 1960 | #2,729 | 20 | — | |
| 1959 | #3,104 | 15 | — | |
| 1958 | #2,260 | 25 | — | |
| 1957 | #2,823 | 17 | — | |
| 1956 | #3,321 | 13 | — | |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 | — | |
| 1954 | #2,779 | 16 | — | |
| 1953 | #2,236 | 22 | — | |
| 1952 | #3,040 | 13 | — | |
| 1951 | #4,011 | 8 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,662 | 9 | — | |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | — | |
| 1948 | #2,828 | 13 | — | |
| 1947 | #3,448 | 10 | — | |
| 1946 | #4,960 | 5 | — | |
| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 | — | |
| 1944 | #2,946 | 10 | — | |
| 1943 | — | — | ||
| 1942 | #4,124 | 6 | — | |
| 1941 | — | — | ||
| 1940 | — | — | ||
| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,579 | 11 | — | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #2,857 | 9 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 | — | |
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 | — | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
| 1932 | — | — | ||
| 1931 | #3,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 | — | |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
| 1928 | — | — | ||
| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 | — | |
| 1925 | — | — | ||
| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | — | |
| 1921 | #4,464 | 6 | — | |
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 | — | |
| 1919 | — | — | ||
| 1918 | #3,869 | 7 | — | |
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| 1880 | — | — | ||
The first year at least five girls were named Perla! It came in at #3,869, and was given to 7 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1919–1920, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Perla
- 282 spots since 2024 (#1,305 → #1,587)
- 576 spots since 2020 (#1,011 → #1,587)
- 939 spots since 2015 (#648 → #1,587)
- Biggest jump: 192 spots in 2012 (#644 → #452)
- Biggest drop: 222 spots in 2013 (#452 → #674)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 2003 at #282 (1,109 births)
- Births halved by 2010, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 40 yrs · run 1979–2018
- Highest: 1 in 1,648 girls born in 2003 were named Perla (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 12,176 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 36.0% of all girls named Perla (7,485) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 7 | #3,869 (1918) | #3,869 |
| 1920s | 49 | #3,564 (1926) | #4,335 |
| 1930s | 51 | #2,579 (1938) | #3,524 |
| 1940s | 63 | #2,828 (1948) | #3,547 |
| 1950s | 150 | #2,236 (1953) | #3,061 |
| 1960s | 279 | #1,855 (1968) | #2,329 |
| 1970s | 776 | #989 (1979) | #1,478 |
| 1980s | 1,991 | #735 (1989) | #840 |
| 1990s | 4,586 | #487 (1998) | #532 |
| 2000s | 7,485 | #282 (2003) | #424 |
| 2010s | 4,203 | #452 (2012) | #716 |
| 2020s | 1,166 | #1,011 (2020) | #1,242 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Perla in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 5,333 of them was named Perla, which outranked 95.9% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 410,808 of them was named Perla, which outranked 14.5% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,376 names at #8,117; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.