Every name given to a US baby since 1880, ranked year by year — straight from Social Security Administration birth records. 105,966 names · 375,362,447 births · public domain.

Pearleen

#31,909 most common girls' name of all time · #51,481 across all names · 0% male / 100% female · used 1914–1955

Rank among girls
#31,909
Rank overall
#51,481 of 105,966
First appeared
1914
Years on the list
8 of 146
All-time
51
Since 2016
0
Peak year
1925 #3,929
Best rank
#3,345 1934
Girls Boys peak 8/yr
19201940

Pearleen first appears in 1914. That's the first year it was given to at least 5 US babies, which is the threshold below which the SSA withholds a name.

Year by year

YearGirlsBoysTotalRank
1955 6 — 6 #5,415
1938 5 — 5 #4,632
1937 5 — 5 #4,570
1934 8 — 8 #3,345
1933 7 — 7 #3,621
1926 7 — 7 #4,148
1925 8 — 8 #3,929
1914 5 — 5 #4,158