Perla
Hebrew at root, from a word for "pearl", and carried in Italian and Spanish before reaching Poland. Only about 60 women here go by it, so most Poles will never meet one.
Perla Pronunciation
Perla is pronounced PER-lah (/ˈpɛrla/).
What Perla means
Where Perla comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Perla comes from Hebrew, and the meaning stays simple across languages: pearl. Polish speakers hear perła, the gem that grows slowly inside a shell. A pearl is the one gem made by a living animal, formed when a mollusk coats an irritant.
In Italy and Spain the name settled as an everyday choice for girls. Spanish and Italian both keep Perla whole, without clipping it into a diminutive. The spelling never changed. The word for the gem and the name for the person match exactly, letter for letter. The pearl is also the birthstone tied to June.
On a Polish class register, Perla would sit among the Zuzannas and Amelias, foreign in sound yet easy to read. There are no standard variants to shorten it. What you are given is the whole word, perła, pearl.
How many people are named Perla
1 in 375731 women in Poland is named Perla. 60 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #4776 among female names.
Perla's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 girls were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Perla as a middle name
Perla is a first name for 60 women in Poland and a middle name for another 26, a 70/30 split. In the women's middle-name ranking it sits 1409th, between Paz (26) and Shannon (26).
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#1407 Olha26
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#1408 Paz26
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#1409 Perla26
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#1410 Shannon26
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#1411 Wilma26