Pearlie

Where Pearlie comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Pearlie.

  • Vowel-ended
Pearlie through the years
  1. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #421 among girls, with 16 babies in the first year on record.
  2. 1887
    Peak, #262
    65 babies named Pearlie, its best rank.
  3. 1894
    Pearlie Posey born
    African American artist
  4. 1920
    Pearlie Kennedy Pettway born
    African American quilter
  5. 1969
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #2,515.
In the dictionary

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Namesakes
  • Pearlie Posey · African American artist, 1894–1984
  • Pearlie Kennedy Pettway · African American quilter, 1920–1982

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.