Gearl

girls:

64 births since 1931

#5652 (1st percentile)

boys:

236 births since 1919

#4350 (5th percentile)

overall:

300 births since 1919

#7439 (4th percentile)

Popularity Trends

The name Gearl is the #7,439 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 300 recorded births since 1919. This represents the 3.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 3.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,350 (5.1% percentile) for all time with 236 births since 1919. For girls, it ranks #5,652 (1.1% percentile) for all time with 64 births since 1931.

Gearl first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1919 (1919 for boys and 1931 for girls). Birth data for Gearl is available in 34 out of the 47 years between 1919 and 1965 (30 years for boys and 11 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 Gearl has been given predominantly to boys, with 78.7% of all recorded births being male. In 1965, 100.0% of babies named Gearl were boys.

For boys, Gearl reached its peak popularity in 1942, achieving the 1.8% percentile (ranked #541) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1942, with 11 births per million (ranked 1.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1965.

For girls, Gearl reached its peak popularity in 1932, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #579) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1932, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1958.

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Gearl".

1919 1965 19191965

Key Statistics

Total Births
64
Peak Births
8
Peak Year
1932
First Recorded
1931
Peak Percentile
0.5%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#579
Current Rank
Female statistics
Total Births
236
Peak Births
15
Peak Year
1942
First Recorded
1919
Peak Percentile
1.8%
Current Percentile
Peak Rank
#541
Current Rank
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Gearl

Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Gearl. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.

Our model is 41.7% confident that Gearl is pronounced as gihrl, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is gearl, at 22.2% confidence, with 1 syllables.

1
41.7%
1
22.2%
2
11.1%
1
11.1%
1
8.3%
1
5.6%
gihrl (1 syllable)
41.7% confidence
G IH1 R L
gearl (1 syllable)
22.2% confidence
G IY1 R L
JIH-ruhl (2 syllables)
11.1% confidence
JH IH1 R AH0 L
jairl (1 syllable)
11.1% confidence
JH EH1 R L
gerl (1 syllable)
8.3% confidence
G ER1 L
jihrl (1 syllable)
5.6% confidence
JH IH1 R L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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About Pronunciation Data

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For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

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