Pernell
Pernell is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 593rd, in 1964.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1964178 births
- Best rank
- #593in 1964
- Since 1915
- 3,306people given the name
The story in the numbers
3,031 boys have been named Pernell in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1964, with 178 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 178 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1969, and the 1960s alone account for 31%. It has spent 8 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 275 girls have also been given it, 8.3% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Pernell | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 48 | |
| 1920s | 96 | |
| 1930s | 118 | |
| 1940s | 149 | |
| 1950s | 176 | |
| 1960s | 945 | |
| 1970s | 464 | |
| 1980s | 439 | |
| 1990s | 292 | |
| 2000s | 169 | |
| 2010s | 111 | |
| 2020s | 24 |
In 1964, its biggest year
Pernell was the 593rd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1964 were Michael, John, David, James and Robert. See all of 1964.
Names that rose and fell with Pernell
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dwaynepeak 1961
- Raynardpeak 1962
- Stoneypeak 1963
- Darryllpeak 1960
- Dewaynepeak 1962
- Robbypeak 1964
- Kerwinpeak 1959
- Darrylepeak 1961
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.