Pearl

Latin gem name

"pearl"

Pearl Origin and Meaning

The name Pearl is a girl's name of Latin origin meaning "pearl".

Pearl, like Ruby, has begun to be polished up for a new generation of fashionable children after a century of jewelry box storage. The birthstone for the month of June, Pearl could also make a fresher middle name alternative to the overused Rose. Cool couple Maya Rudolph and Paul Thomas Anderson named their daughter Pearl Minnie, followed by Jack Osbourne picking Pearl Clementine. Several celebs have put it in the middle spot, as in Busy Philipps's Cricket Pearl, Jake Owen's Olive Pearl and Caleb Followill's Dixie Pearl .

After being a Top 25 name in the late nineteenth century, Pearl went into a long slide, but is showing signs of a strong comeback -- it reentered the Top 1000 in 2010.

In Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Pearl is the illegitimate daughter of Hester Prynne, who gives her the name because she is 'her mother's only treasure.'

Pearl was also the alter ego name of Janis Joplin, tied to singer Pearl Bailey, and---hmm--the birth name of western writer Zane Gray.

Variations are PERLE and PERLA.

Pearl Rank in US Top 1000

# 802 in the US

Pearl Rank in Nameberry Top 1000

# 347 on Nameberry

Popularity of the name Pearl

• 802 US 2024
• 347 Nameberry 2025
• 415 Future 2028
• 232 England 2023
• 82 Dogs 2022
• 63 Cats 2022

20 Names Similar to Pearl

These 20 names were selected by our users that were looking for other names like Pearl.

• Rosemary
• Marigold
• June
• Opal
• Magnolia
• Bonnie
• Daisy
• Flora
• Clementine
• Fern
• Birdie
• Primrose
• Ruby
• Poppy
• Minnie
• Mabel
• Winnie
• Olive
• Lavender
• Cleo

Famous People Named Pearl

• Pearl Sydenstricker Buck American novelist
• Pearl Mae Bailey American actress and singer
• Pearl Cleage American novelist
• Pearl Lowe English singer,songwriter
• Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie American novelist and dramatist under the pen name John Oliver Hobbes
• Pearl Hart American Old West outlaw
• Pearl Liaison stage name of Matthew James Lent, American drag queen of RuPaul's Drag Race season 7
• Pearl Clementine Osbourne (b. 2012) daughter of TV personality Jack and Lisa Osbourne
• Pearl Maria Aday American singer and daughter of singer Meat Loaf
• Pearl Minnie Anderson (b. 2005) daughter of actress Maya Rudolph and director Paul Thomas Anderson
• Pearl Ryder daughter of singer Shaun Ryder of Black Grape
• Pearl daughter of YouTuber Louise Pentland and Liam O'Neill
• (Pearl) Zane Grey male American novelist
• Minnie Pearl stage name of American comedian Sarah Ophelia Colley Cannon

The name Pearl in Pop Culture

• Pearl Zhu character on TV's "The Vampire Diaries"
• Pearl daughter of Hester Prynne in Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter"
• Pearl Mr. Krabs' daughter on animated series "SpongeBob SquarePants"
• Pearl character in song cycle Ghost Quartet
• Pearl Gallagher character on TV's "Diff'rent Strokes"
• Pearl Caraldo main character on TV's "Pearl"
• The Pearl character in anime "One Piece"
• Pearl late 14th,century Middle English poem
• Pearl Fey character in video game "Ace Attorney"
• Pearl Slattery character in "Redhill Rococo" by Shena Mackay
• Pearl Cunningham character in Ray Lawler's "Summer of the Seventeenth Doll"
• Pearl Shay character on TV's "227"
• Pearl Forrester character on TV's "Mystery Science Theater 3000"
• Pearl character on animated series "Steven Universe"
• Pearl character in Disney's "The Little Mermaid"
• Pearl character in Disney's "Home on the Range"
• "The Pearl " short story by John Steinbeck
• Pearl Jam American rock band
• Pearl Harbor Hawaiian U.S. military base bombed in 1941 by Japan
• Pearl drums manufacturer
• Pearl main character in novel "My Sister Jodie"
• Pearl main character in novel "The Year of The Rat"
• Pearl Ada Lennox character in novel 'Behind the Scenes at the Museum' by Kate Atkinson (twin sister of Ruby Lennox)
• Grandma Pearl character in "Big Fat Liar"
• Granny Pearl character in Nadia Aguiar's children's fantasy book series "Adventures in Tamarind"
• Pearl character in Jenny Nimmo's "The Children of the Red King" series
• Pearl Serpentine daughter of the Hydra in "Monster High" show and series (twin sister of Peri Serpentine)
• Pearl a character from the video game Platoon 2
• Pearl Littlefield main character of Ann M. Martin's "10 Rules for Living with My Sister" and "10 Good and Bad Things About My Life So Far"

International Variations of the name Pearl

• Perle French
• Perlezenn Breton
• Perline French
• Perlita Spanish
• Perlette French
• Perla Spanish