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The first name 
Pearley

Pearley is a first name for all genders, most often used for girls.

Pearley is a very rare first name!

At least in the US, the name Pearley is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Pearley each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Pearley will meet someone with the same name. So, Pearley is a very special name!

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Pearley

Pearley -
once in a blue moon

Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Pearley. Children named Pearley have made themselves scarce and you might rather know them from history books: Reaching pos. 1,417 Pearley ranked higher than ever in 1889. By comparison, there have been 79 years in which the first name Pearley has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2022. In general, parents name their newborns Pearley only once in a blue moon, so people with this name can consider themselves quite special!

In years where the graph has no value, the name Pearley was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Pearley has 7 letters 
and begins with a P

Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is pretty rare as an initial letter for first names: only 1.6% of all common first names in the US begin with a P. The most common first letters of given names, by the way, are A, J and K, while U, X and Q are the least common initials of first names.

With seven letters, the name Pearley has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.

That means that since 1.6% of all first names begin with a P, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average.

Other names with 
P, e, a, r, l, e and y

If you take all the letters in the name Pearley – P, e, a, r, l, e and y – and put them together again, you can form another name, such as Praylee.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Pearley

If your name is Pearley and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...

This is how you spell the name Pearley

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Pearley, you can simply say:

Pig

Elephant

Apple

Rocket

Lion

Elephant

Yoyo

This is how the name Pearley is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Pearley in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Pearley

Pearley

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Pearley

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Pearley is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

P
E
A
R
L
E
Y

Have you ever waved the name Pearley

In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.

P
E
A
R
L
E
Y

Beeping like crazy...

In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Pearley sounds like this: