Meaning and Origin of: Pearl

Girl name origins & meanings

  • Latin : Pearl; jewel

Family name origins & meanings

  • English : metonymic occupational name for a trader in pearls, which in the Middle Ages were fashionable among the rich for the ornamentation of clothes, from Middle English, Old French perle (Late Latin perla).
  • Americanized form of Jewish Perel.

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