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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Pearlene” in the USA?

Number of people named “Pearlene” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Pearlene” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Pearlene” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Pearlene” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Pearlene” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Pearlene” by birth year

This chart shows how “Pearlene” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1906 5 0.00001167 5 100%
1907 5 0.000010744 5 100%
1910 13 0.000022007 13 100%
1911 8 0.000012417 8 100%
1912 13 0.000013157 13 100%
1913 8 0.000007035 8 100%
1914 14 0.000009885 14 100%
1915 15 0.000008186 15 100%
1916 17 0.000008788 17 100%
1917 24 0.00001196 24 100%
1918 35 0.000016121 35 100%
1919 21 0.000009951 21 100%
1920 24 0.000010607 24 100%
1921 28 0.000011994 28 100%
1922 29 0.000012668 29 100%
1923 34 0.000014767 34 100%
1924 35 0.000014696 35 100%
1925 35 0.000015 35 100%
1926 26 0.000011325 26 100%
1927 40 0.000017246 40 100%
1928 39 0.000017249 39 100%
1929 41 0.000018703 41 100%
1930 41 0.000018441 41 100%
1931 46 0.000021859 46 100%
1932 45 0.000021314 45 100%
1933 35 0.000017505 35 100%
1934 60 0.00002889 60 100%
1935 58 0.000027753 58 100%
1936 38 0.000018291 38 100%
1937 49 0.000022997 49 100%
1938 64 0.000028926 64 100%
1939 61 0.000027684 61 100%
1940 48 0.000020845 48 100%
1941 40 0.000016417 40 100%
1942 58 0.000021231 58 100%
1943 47 0.000016652 47 100%
1944 58 0.000021561 58 100%
1945 33 0.000012439 33 100%
1946 40 0.000012518 40 100%
1947 59 0.000016378 59 100%
1948 53 0.000015351 53 100%
1949 45 0.000012913 45 100%
1950 43 0.000012274 43 100%
1951 33 0.000008958 33 100%
1952 53 0.000013955 53 100%
1953 40 0.00001038 40 100%
1954 33 0.00000829 33 100%
1955 39 0.000009713 39 100%
1956 29 0.000007034 29 100%
1957 29 0.000006901 29 100%
1958 25 0.000006048 25 100%
1959 25 0.000006013 25 100%
1960 16 0.000003852 16 100%
1961 14 0.00000338 14 100%
1962 13 0.000003222 13 100%
1963 16 0.000004042 16 100%
1964 17 0.000004373 17 100%
1965 11 0.000003034 11 100%
1966 10 0.000002877 10 100%
1967 8 0.000002356 8 100%
1970 9 0.000002495 9 100%
1978 8 0.000002521 8 100%

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