Feminine dossier · first seen 1906

Pearlene

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Pearlene
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1938

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Silent Generation

1906Peak 19382024

Peak year

1938

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,958

Pearlene has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Silent Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1938, when 64 girls were named Pearlene.

No girls were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,958 Americans have been named Pearlene and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1906.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationSilent Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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