Perlita
Adela Sequeyro Haro was a Mexican journalist, actress, filmmaker and screenwriter. She was a pioneer of Mexican cinema both during the silent era and the talkies.
- Spanish
Meaning & Origin of Perlita
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Adela Sequeyro Haro was a Mexican journalist, actress, filmmaker and screenwriter. She was a pioneer of Mexican cinema both during the silent era and the talkies.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Spanish
The Story of Perlita
Perlita first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1972, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1983: 20 births, good for #3,806 nationwide. About 40% of every Perlita on record arrived during the 1980s, its defining decade. Perlita last appeared in the published SSA data in 2021, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 310 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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Variants & Related Forms of Perlita
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Names that sound like Perlita
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Source: Datamuse . Phonetic similarity ranking, not curated.
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About the name Perlita
Perlita is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1972 and has accumulated 310 births in the dataset. Perlita's peak popularity came in 1983 when it ranked #3,806. Use the chart and map above to compare Perlita's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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