Pearlean
Recorded 1907–1966 · United States
Pearlean was most popular in 1939, when 37 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,141 that year. It was not recorded in 2025. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 1,066 people named Pearlean.
Pearlean over time
How old is the name Pearlean?
Pearlean first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1907, which makes it about 118 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 59 of the 119 years since. It was last recorded in 1966.
How many people are named Pearlean?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 1,066 American births named Pearlean between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 372 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Pearlean in 2025?
Pearlean was not recorded in 2025. The SSA withholds any name given to fewer than five babies in a year, so fewer than five American babies were given it.
Is Pearlean a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Pearlean is a girl’s name — 100.0% of the 1,066 Americans given it were girls and 0.0% were boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Pearlean?
Roughly 372 Americans named Pearlean are alive today — 35% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 78 years old, and half are between 72 and 85.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Pearlean is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org