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How popular is “Pearline” in the USA?

Number of people named “Pearline” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Pearline” 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 “Pearline” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Pearline” by birth year

This chart shows how “Pearline” 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
1889 5 0.000017304 5 100%
1891 6 0.00002093 6 100%
1893 5 0.000015374 5 100%
1895 5 0.000014244 5 100%
1896 9 0.000025176 9 100%
1897 8 0.000023058 8 100%
1898 8 0.000020972 8 100%
1899 9 0.00002653 9 100%
1900 13 0.000028872 13 100%
1902 8 0.000020686 8 100%
1903 15 0.000039349 15 100%
1904 30 0.000074352 30 100%
1905 17 0.000040102 17 100%
1906 23 0.000053682 23 100%
1907 23 0.000049421 23 100%
1908 32 0.000065487 32 100%
1909 41 0.0000802 41 100%
1910 43 0.000072794 43 100%
1911 37 0.000057429 37 100%
1912 35 0.000035423 35 100%
1913 44 0.000038695 44 100%
1914 88 0.000062132 88 100%
1915 74 0.000040384 74 100%
1916 101 0.000052212 101 100%
1917 109 0.000054317 109 100%
1918 101 0.00004652 101 100%
1919 118 0.000055918 118 100%
1920 135 0.000059665 135 100%
1921 140 0.00005997 140 100%
1922 142 0.000062032 142 100%
1923 133 0.000057764 133 100%
1924 156 0.000065502 156 100%
1925 178 0.000076287 178 100%
1926 168 0.000073174 168 100%
1927 187 0.000080626 187 100%
1928 146 0.000064575 146 100%
1929 149 0.000067969 149 100%
1930 139 0.00006252 139 100%
1931 148 0.000070329 148 100%
1932 146 0.000069152 146 100%
1933 171 0.000085524 171 100%
1934 139 0.000066929 139 100%
1935 158 0.000075602 158 100%
1936 145 0.000069793 145 100%
1937 122 0.000057259 122 100%
1938 141 0.000063727 141 100%
1939 106 0.000048107 106 100%
1940 123 0.000053416 123 100%
1941 110 0.000045148 110 100%
1942 102 0.000037338 102 100%
1943 113 0.000040035 113 100%
1944 110 0.000040891 110 100%
1945 94 0.000035433 94 100%
1946 101 0.000031609 101 100%
1947 94 0.000026094 94 100%
1948 100 0.000028964 100 100%
1949 121 0.000034722 121 100%
1950 83 0.000023692 83 100%
1951 75 0.00002036 75 100%
1952 79 0.0000208 79 100%
1953 79 0.0000205 79 100%
1954 83 0.000020851 83 100%
1955 78 0.000019427 78 100%
1956 86 0.000020858 86 100%
1957 57 0.000013565 57 100%
1958 43 0.000010402 43 100%
1959 48 0.000011544 48 100%
1960 46 0.000011074 46 100%
1961 45 0.000010864 45 100%
1962 36 0.000008921 36 100%
1963 57 0.0000144 57 100%
1964 26 0.000006688 26 100%
1965 37 0.000010206 37 100%
1966 33 0.000009495 33 100%
1967 20 0.000005891 20 100%
1968 19 0.000005624 19 100%
1969 15 0.000004316 15 100%
1970 30 0.000008318 30 100%
1971 12 0.000003496 12 100%
1972 21 0.000006682 21 100%
1973 7 0.00000232 7 100%
1974 7 0.000002303 7 100%
1975 6 0.000001987 6 100%
1976 10 0.000003296 10 100%
1977 5 0.000001574 5 100%
1978 6 0.00000189 6 100%
1979 6 0.000001803 6 100%
1980 11 0.000003193 11 100%
1982 9 0.000002566 9 100%
1983 13 0.000003754 13 100%
1984 9 0.00000258 9 100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 100%
1987 6 0.000001664 6 100%
1988 5 0.000001353 5 100%
1991 5 0.000001284 5 100%
1996 8 0.000002193 8 100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 100%
2016 5 0.000001363 5 100%

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