Perla

given name · Latin script

Meaning: pearl

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/peɾla/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Perla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • PYParaguay≈1 in 824(inferred from the name graph)
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 1.7K
  • PHPhilippines≈1 in 3K

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.

Philippines (inferred from the name graph)

≈36,000 people, est.

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
352 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 824 (inferred from the name graph)

Paraguay, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

PerlaLatin(measured from records)
ΠέρλαGreek(measured from records)

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

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Perla 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.

Where Perla is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
PH Philippines#934≈36,000 est.≈1 in 3K—Perla62
US United States—27,6621 in 12K28KPerla352
AR Argentina#611≈9,400 est.≈1 in 4.8K354Perla82
PY Paraguay#163≈8,700 est.≈1 in 824—Perla30
DO Dominican Republic#103≈6,100 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Perla43
IS Iceland—1101 in 3.2K110——

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Perla is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Pèrlà, Pëřlä, Përla, Perlâ, Pęrlã

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Perl-A

  • Indonesian given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Philippines, Indonesia, United States, India

    Also written Pèrla, Pęrlå, Pérlâ, Perlã, Përlā

  • Polish given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Bulgaria, Slovakia

    Languages: Polish, Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Перла, Pėrla, Pêŕlå, Pērla, Perlâ

  • Lao given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, Philippines, United States, Peru

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Përlä, Pèrlà

  • Turkish given name7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Pêrlà, Pérlâ, Pérlà, Përlâ

51 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Perla is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Portuguese, pall

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Spanish, Del latín vulgar pernăla, diminutivo de perna; pasó a significar 'perla' por parecido con el hueso del pernil.

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • In Italian, do lat. perna > perula; pode indicar joalheiro ou ser matronímico

    as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos

  • Perla, joya

    as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado

  • Italian and Spanish form of PEARL . Pet form: Spanish: Perlita .

    as a word

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)

19201940196019802000Perla Santos-Ocampo, b. 1931Perla Aguiar, b. 1932Perla Cristal, b. 1937Perla Bautista, b. 1940Perla Batalla, b. 1950Perla Liberatori, b. 1981Glódís Perla Viggósdóttir, b. 1995Perla Helou, b. 1995Perla Haney-Jardine, b. 1997Perla Farías, b. 2000

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).

How to address them(machine-generated)

FormalDear Colleague,
InformalHello,

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 90 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Perla
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202028K#1,321
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025132—
IS IcelandÞjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry)2026110—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202077#1,321
AR ArgentinaRENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present)202467#924
AR Argentinadatos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015)201511—

Reference works 5

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 Perla mean, and where does it come from?
pearl Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Perla?
A machine transcription gives /peɾla/ (IPA) for Spanish.
In which country does Perla have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Perla in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled perla.
Is Perla a male or female name?
Perla is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What are other forms of the name Perla?
In the etymology graph, Pearlie, Perle and Pearle are forms of the same name in other languages; Perlita is a recorded short or pet form.
How common is the name Perla?
In the United States, the national register counted 27,662 people named Perla in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Perla compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Perla is the 934th most common given name of 486,299 given names recorded there.

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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, “Perla” — the 934th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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