You have issues with your initial data:

• Assigning an arrayref to an array: @data = [...]
• Unterminated string: "Main Street,
• Failure to separate array elements: @data = [[...][...][...]]

I strongly recommend that you use the strict and warnings pragmata in all your code.

There's documentation on complex data structures. These may be a good place to start:

• perldsc - Perl Data Structures Cookbook
• perllol - Manipulating Arrays of Arrays in Perl

I've had to make some changes to your initial data; however, the following is probably close to what you want.

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
use warnings;

use Data::Dump;

my @data = (
    [ "JOHN JR", "10/30/2011", "Main Street"],
    [ "JOE DOE", "11/30/1999", "Broke Street"],
    [ "MARY DEE", "06/01/2014", "Pearl Street"]
);

my @AoH;

@{$AoH[@AoH]}{qw{NAME DOB ADDRESS}} = @$_ for @data;

dd \@AoH;
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Output:

[
  { ADDRESS => "Main Street", DOB => "10/30/2011", NAME => "JOHN JR" }
+,
  { ADDRESS => "Broke Street", DOB => "11/30/1999", NAME => "JOE DOE" 
+},
  { ADDRESS => "Pearl Street", DOB => "06/01/2014", NAME => "MARY DEE"
+ },
]
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