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Pearl (F)>

Pearl (female)

Variants:Peninnah (F) Perla (F) Perle (F)
Pet Name for:Margaret (F)
Masculine form:Pearl (M)
   
Source(s): The Oxford Names Companion, OUP
Personal communications [JV, RO'G]
Notes:

English, popularised in Victorian times with other names of precious and semi-precious stones.   Also an earlier Anglicized form of the Jewish Perle, a nickname for Margaret [q.v.].

A US correspondent [RO'G] has noted that her grandfather's forename was Pearl but this is a unique use as a male name.