Perola

The lovely Portuguese word for "pearl" (Pérola) was seldom used as a first name even in Brazil and Portugal until it was the name of a character on a popular telenovela "Joia Rara." It is also the name of a town in the south of Brazil, near the Paraguayan border.

Pronounced puh-ROH-luh.

As of October 2026, Perola ranked #17035 in US births in 2024 SSA, peaked at #11932 in 2023.