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 | — | — | ||
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| 1939 | #3,429 | 7 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,579 | 11 | — | |
| 1937 | — | — | ||
| 1936 | #2,857 | 9 | — | |
| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 | — | |
| 1934 | #4,286 | 5 | — | |
| 1933 | — | — | ||
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| 1931 | #3,226 | 8 | — | |
| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 | — | |
| 1929 | #4,570 | 5 | — | |
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| 1927 | #4,286 | 6 | — | |
| 1926 | #3,564 | 8 | — | |
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| 1924 | #4,002 | 7 | — | |
| 1923 | #4,376 | 6 | — | |
| 1922 | #4,445 | 6 | — | |
| 1921 | #4,464 | 6 | — | |
| 1920 | #4,975 | 5 | — | |
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| 1918 | #3,869 | 7 | — | |
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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.
Where Perla is popular in 1996
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Nevada#179 · 1 in 750
- Texas#203 · 1 in 990
- Arizona#208 · 1 in 918
- California#271 · 1 in 1,427
- Illinois#424 · 1 in 2,552
Best ever in a state: #131 in Texas, 2003.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Nevada | #179 | 11 | 1 in 750 |
| Texas | #203 | 141 | 1 in 990 |
| Arizona | #208 | 31 | 1 in 918 |
| California | #271 | 161 | 1 in 1,427 |
| Illinois | #424 | 28 | 1 in 2,552 |
| Colorado | #465 | 8 | 1 in 2,622 |
| Utah | #465 | 6 | 1 in 2,538 |
| Oregon | #494 | 6 | 1 in 2,776 |
| North Carolina | #609 | 9 | 1 in 4,372 |
| New York | #618 | 25 | 1 in 4,173 |
| New Jersey | #858 | 6 | 1 in 7,055 |
| Florida | #912 | 10 | 1 in 7,273 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
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 1996
Top girls' names in 1996
Top boys' names in 1996
More about 1996
girls
1,753,007 girls got a published name in 1996; 1 in 3,614 of them was named Perla, which outranked 96.9% of the 15,894 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.5% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,894,300 boys got a published name in 1996; 1 in 378,860 of them was named Perla, which outranked 14.4% of the 10,536 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 15.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,521 names at #9,015; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.