Name Trends

See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Perl” in the USA?

Number of people named “Perl” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Perl” by birth year

This chart shows how “Perl” 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
1883 5 0.000023047 5 -100%
1887 5 0.000020211 5 -100%
1892 5 0.000014953 5 -100%
1913 7 0.000006156 7 -100%
1915 7 0.00000382 7 -100%
1916 5 0.000002585 5 -100%
1917 7 0.000003488 7 -100%
1918 7 0.000003224 7 -100%
1919 5 0.000002369 5 -100%
1920 7 0.000003094 7 -100%
1923 6 0.000002606 6 -100%
1924 9 0.000003779 9 -100%
1929 5 0.000002281 5 100%
1930 5 0.000002249 5 -100%
1931 5 0.000002376 5 -100%
1967 5 0.000001473 5 100%
1977 6 0.000001889 6 100%
1978 5 0.000001575 5 100%
1981 5 0.000001445 5 100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 100%
1987 5 0.000001387 5 100%
1988 7 0.000001894 7 100%
1992 11 0.000002864 11 100%
1994 5 0.000001345 5 100%
1996 9 0.000002468 9 100%
1997 9 0.000002482 9 100%
1998 9 0.000002447 9 100%
1999 7 0.000001895 7 100%
2000 7 0.000001852 7 100%
2001 15 0.000004007 15 100%
2002 13 0.000003478 13 100%
2003 9 0.000002367 9 100%
2004 20 0.000005234 20 100%
2005 14 0.000003641 14 100%
2006 12 0.000003033 12 100%
2007 16 0.000004002 16 100%
2008 12 0.000003053 12 100%
2009 22 0.000005759 22 100%
2010 20 0.000005412 20 100%
2011 11 0.000003007 11 100%
2012 17 0.000004648 17 100%
2013 20 0.000005486 20 100%
2014 23 0.000006206 23 100%
2015 19 0.000005134 19 100%
2016 33 0.000008995 33 100%
2017 25 0.000006991 25 100%
2018 24 0.000006826 24 100%
2019 24 0.000006915 24 100%
2020 21 0.000006286 21 100%
2021 25 0.000007379 25 100%
2022 29 0.000008572 29 100%
2023 35 0.00001057 35 100%
2024 23 0.00000691 23 100%

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