Mearl
Mearl is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 668th, in 1909.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 192038 births
- Best rank
- #668in 1909
- Since 1894
- 1,638people given the name
The story in the numbers
1,210 boys have been named Mearl in the United States since 1894, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1920, with 38 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 38 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1930, and the 1920s alone account for 24%. It has spent 5 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Mearl is used for both sexes: 26% of its bearers are girls (428), most of them born around 1915.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1920, its biggest year
Mearl was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 1920 were John, William, Robert, James and Charles. See all of 1920.
Names that rose and fell with Mearl
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Leviepeak 1919
- Buddiepeak 1925
- Williardpeak 1915
- Aciepeak 1928
- Estelpeak 1921
- Cephuspeak 1922
- Estillpeak 1919
- Estonpeak 1915
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.