Meaning not yet researched.
Perla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 132 in 2025. Its best rank was #282 in 2003.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #282 in 2003; #1,590 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Perla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,590 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2003, at #282.
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Perla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 132 girls in 2025. Peak: #282 in 2003 · most girls in one year: 1,109 (2003).
In 2025, 132 US girls were named Perla, making it the 1,590th most common girls’ name of the year, down 279 places from #1,311 in 2024. That is 44 fewer than the 176 girls named Perla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #282, reached in 2003. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,109. For comparison, it was #648 in 2015 and #3,882 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Perla in 99 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1918 with 7 babies. In all, 20,836 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 7,485 babies named Perla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,443 US girls were named Perla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 407. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,176 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Perla ranked highest in Texas in 2025, at #898 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Pearl (163,010 babies since 1880), Margarita (40,418 babies since 1880) and Pearline (6,262 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Penina, Perline and Perlina are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Penina (1,009), Perline (216), Perlina (38).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
No nicknames listed for Perla in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 33 | #898 | #357 |
| California | 25 | #1,078 | #350 |
| Virginia | 6 | #1,148 | #717 |
| Florida | 11 | #1,314 | #826 |
| New York | 6 | #2,015 | #705 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 132 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 2024 | 176 | #1,311 | — | — |
| 2023 | 203 | #1,183 | — | — |
| 2022 | 208 | #1,165 | — | — |
| 2021 | 198 | #1,208 | — | — |
| 2020 | 249 | #1,013 | — | — |
| 2019 | 236 | #1,072 | — | — |
| 2018 | 289 | #927 | — | — |
| 2017 | 345 | #795 | — | — |
| 2016 | 407 | #705 | — | — |
| 2015 | 443 | #648 | — | — |
| 2014 | 441 | #648 | — | — |
| 2013 | 423 | #674 | — | — |
| 2012 | 690 | #452 | — | — |
| 2011 | 444 | #644 | — | — |
| 2010 | 485 | #607 | — | — |
| 2009 | 581 | #524 | — | — |
| 2008 | 662 | #479 | — | — |
| 2007 | 803 | #406 | — | — |
| 2006 | 843 | #385 | — | — |
| 2005 | 865 | #365 | — | — |
| 2004 | 878 | #361 | — | — |
| 2003 | 1,109 | #282 | — | — |
| 2002 | 701 | #414 | — | — |
| 2001 | 533 | #510 | — | — |
| 2000 | 510 | #519 | — | — |
| 1999 | 472 | #537 | — | — |
| 1998 | 522 | #488 | — | — |
| 1997 | 480 | #507 | — | — |
| 1996 | 485 | #495 | 5 | #10,132 |
| 1995 | 502 | #491 | — | — |
| 1994 | 482 | #518 | 7 | #7,540 |
| 1993 | 478 | #514 | — | — |
| 1992 | 409 | #570 | — | — |
| 1991 | 400 | #579 | 8 | #6,372 |
| 1990 | 356 | #630 | 5 | #9,136 |
| 1989 | 267 | #736 | — | — |
| 1988 | 222 | #822 | — | — |
| 1987 | 216 | #814 | — | — |
| 1986 | 227 | #763 | 5 | #7,534 |
| 1985 | 204 | #808 | — | — |
| 1984 | 210 | #770 | — | — |
| 1983 | 166 | #908 | — | — |
| 1982 | 158 | #946 | — | — |
| 1981 | 155 | #953 | — | — |
| 1980 | 166 | #911 | — | — |
| 1979 | 144 | #992 | — | — |
| 1978 | 108 | #1,173 | — | — |
| 1977 | 84 | #1,354 | — | — |
| 1976 | 87 | #1,279 | — | — |
| 1975 | 76 | #1,396 | — | — |
| 1974 | 70 | #1,442 | — | — |
| 1973 | 63 | #1,506 | — | — |
| 1972 | 67 | #1,451 | — | — |
| 1971 | 44 | #1,958 | — | — |
| 1970 | 33 | #2,341 | — | — |
| 1969 | 28 | #2,492 | — | — |
| 1968 | 41 | #1,873 | — | — |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,539 | — | — |
| 1966 | 29 | #2,235 | — | — |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,729 | — | — |
| 1964 | 29 | #2,291 | — | — |
| 1963 | 27 | #2,346 | — | — |
| 1962 | 33 | #2,063 | — | — |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,343 | — | — |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,794 | — | — |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,217 | — | — |
| 1958 | 25 | #2,299 | — | — |
| 1957 | 17 | #2,902 | — | — |
| 1956 | 13 | #3,457 | — | — |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,523 | — | — |
| 1954 | 16 | #2,865 | — | — |
| 1953 | 22 | #2,278 | — | — |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,158 | — | — |
| 1951 | 8 | #4,289 | — | — |
| 1950 | 9 | #3,882 | — | — |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,564 | — | — |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,938 | — | — |
| 1947 | 10 | #3,646 | — | — |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,525 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,332 | — | — |
| 1944 | 10 | #3,099 | — | — |
| 1942 | 6 | #4,515 | — | — |
| 1939 | 7 | #3,711 | — | — |
| 1938 | 11 | #2,696 | — | — |
| 1936 | 9 | #3,047 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,109 | — | — |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,820 | — | — |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,424 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,100 | — | — |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,135 | — | — |
| 1927 | 6 | #4,692 | — | — |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,822 | — | — |
| 1924 | 7 | #4,352 | — | — |
| 1923 | 6 | #4,852 | — | — |
| 1922 | 6 | #4,895 | — | — |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,969 | — | — |
| 1920 | 5 | #5,602 | — | — |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,190 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).