Pêrla

surname · Latin script

Pêrla is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines 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.

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

Record sources
352 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 824 (inferred from the name graph)

Paraguay, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
PêrlaLatin(measured from records)
ΠέρλαGreek(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Perla in AR Argentina, US United States, PH Philippines and 2 more.

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)
Derivation of Pêrla: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Pêrla
  1. Old Norseperla(measured from records)
  2. Middle Low Germanperle(measured from records)
  3. Old Saxonperula(measured from records)
  4. 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

Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Pêrla 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 Pêrla 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).

Evidence

(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Pêrla under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Pêrla 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 Pêrla have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 36 thousand people named Pêrla in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled perla.
How common is the name Pêrla?
In the United States, the national register counted 27,662 people named Pêrla in 2020, about 1 in 12 thousand residents.
How common is Pêrla compared with other names?
In the Philippines, Pêrla 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, “Pêrla” — the 934th most common given name in Philippines. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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