Pérola
loc · Latin script
Meaning: pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks)
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Pérola is a name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country.
- BRBrazil1 in 7K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 7.4K
- PTPortugal≈1 in 139K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- Sources
- 78 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.0K (inferred from the name graph)
30,391 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Per-Ola in SE Sweden, US United States, BJ Benin and Perola in BR Brazil.
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)
pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Pérola 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.
30,391 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present); the pt-irn-lista-nomes register. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Pérola is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In tet, pearl
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Pérola Byingtonb. 1879BRBrazilian philanthropist and social activist (1879–1963)
- Pérola Fariab. 1991BRBrazilian actress
- Pérola Crepaldib. 2004BRBrazilian singer and music teacher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 6 sources across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 3.9K | #3,933 |
| PT Portugal | IRN — Lista de Nomes Próprios admitidos | — | — | — |
| PT Portugal | Um Nome Para o Bebê (Barbosa, 1990) | — | — | — |
Reference works 1
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Pérola mean, and where does it come from?
- pearl (rounded shelly concretion produced by certain mollusks) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Pérola have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 30 thousand people named Pérola, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled perola.
- Where is Pérola most common?
- Pérola is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 7.0 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Pérola?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 30,391 people named Pérola in 2022, about 1 in 7.0 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Pérola?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/p%C3%A9rolaThe 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, “Pérola”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.