Perlita is a first name for girls.
Recently, the name Perlita has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one girl in 100,000 has been named Perlita. That means that a girl named Perlita is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name her whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Perlita.
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 be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Perlita. Girls named Perlita have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it a few years ago: At No. 3,480 Perlita ranked higher than ever before in 1983. By comparison, there have been 109 years in which the first name Perlita 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 daughters Perlita only once in a blue moon, so girls and women with this name can consider themselves exceptional!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Perlita was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Meeting a woman or girl named Perlita is something really special. Out of all 50 states, women and girls named Perlita can be found in only two: California and Texas. No other state currently has residents named Perlita. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few women and girls called Perlita living in one state or another (if your name is Perlita and you live outside of California or Texas, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Perlita is in California, as there live more women and girls with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00060% of all female residents are named Perlita – that’s just one in 167,561! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 116 women with that name. So, if your name is Perlita, chances are you will never meet another woman with your beautiful first name.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter P is quite rare as an initial letter for girls' names: only 1.6% of all common girls' names in the US begin with a P, which means that this initial occurs only about half as often as the other letters on average. Nevertheless, P is by no means the rarest initial. While A, S and M are the most common first letters of girls' names, Q, X and U are the least common initials of feminine first names.
With seven letters, the name Perlita 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 girls’ names begin with a P, this initial occurs less than half as often as the other letters on average. By the way, of the comparatively few girls' names that begin with a P, Patricia is currently the most common.
If your name is Perlita 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...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Perlita, you can simply say:
Pig
Elephant
Rocket
Lion
Igloo
Tiger
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Perlita
Perlita
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
P
E
R
L
I
T
A
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
R
L
I
T
A
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. Perlita sounds like this:
