girls:
53 births since 1909
#5663 (1st percentile)
boys:
533 births since 1907
#4053 (12th percentile)
overall:
586 births since 1907
#7153 (8th percentile)
The name Byrl is the #7,153 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 586 recorded births since 1907. This represents the 7.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,053 (11.6% percentile) for all time with 533 births since 1907. For girls, it ranks #5,663 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 53 births since 1909.
Byrl first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1907 (1907 for boys and 1909 for girls). Birth data for Byrl is available in 43 out of the 52 years between 1907 and 1958 (42 years for boys and 8 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Byrl has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 91.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Byrl reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #498) with 25 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 32 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1958.
For girls, Byrl reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #588) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 14 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1931.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Byrl".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Byrl is pronounced as berl, which has 1 syllables.
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