Pèrla
surname · Latin script
Pèrla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old Norse perla, a borrowing from Middle Low German perle, from Old Saxon perula, from Medieval Latin perla.
- USUnited States1 in 12K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 3.2K
- ALAlbania1 in 7.7K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 309 (measured from records)
- 1 in 3.2K (inferred from the name graph)
27,662 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Iceland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Perla in US United States, ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)- Old Norseperla(measured from records)
- Middle Low Germanperle(measured from records)
- Old Saxonperula(measured from records)
- Medieval Latinperla(measured from records)
From Old Norse perla, a borrowing from Middle Low German perle, from Old Saxon perula, from Medieval Latin perla.
Cited for this meaning 4
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Nordic Names
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Pèrla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
27,662 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pèrla mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old Norse perla, a borrowing from Middle Low German perle, from Old Saxon perula, from Medieval Latin perla. Recorded by Wiktionary and Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios and 2 other sources.
- In which country does Pèrla have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 28 thousand people named Pèrla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled perla.
- Where is Pèrla most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Pèrla is densest in Iceland — about 1 in 3.2 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Pèrla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 27,662 people named Pèrla in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A8rlaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Pèrla”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.