Pearl
Just fifteen women in all of Poland carry it, and no baby has been given it in years. An English name with Hebrew roots, meaning simply pearl, the gemstone.
Pearl Pronunciation
Pearl is pronounced PE-ahrl (/ˈpɛarl/).
What Pearl means
Where Pearl comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Pearl is an English name drawn straight from the gemstone. In Middle English the word was perle, and it named the thing before it ever named a child. Underneath the English sits a Hebrew root, the sense carried by Peninnah in the Hebrew Bible, a name read as pearl or coral. In Polish the meaning holds steady: perła.
The pearl grows inside a living creature.
On a Polish class register Pearl reads as an import, and a teacher may slow down at it. The name never took a Polish diminutive, so it stands whole on the urząd form, with no Perełka to soften it. What a bearer keeps is the flat meaning of the word: pearl, perła.
How many people are named Pearl
1 in 1502922 women in Poland is named Pearl. 15 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #12233 among female names.
Pearl as a middle name
Pearl is a first name for 15 women in Poland and a middle name for another 39, a 28/72 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1117th, between Noa (39) and Samuela (39).
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#1115 Niamh39
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#1116 Noa39
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#1117 Pearl39
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#1118 Samuela39
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#1119 Thu39