girls:
428 births since 1893
#5288 (7th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1894
#3397 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.6k births since 1893
#6108 (21st percentile)
The name Mearl is the #6,108 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,638 recorded births since 1893. This represents the 21.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 21.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,397 (25.9% percentile) for all time with 1,210 births since 1894. For girls, it ranks #5,288 (7.5% percentile) for all time with 428 births since 1893.
Mearl first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1893 (1893 for girls and 1894 for boys). Birth data for Mearl is available in 72 out of the 85 years between 1893 and 1977 (70 years for boys and 43 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 Mearl has been given predominantly to boys, with 73.9% of all recorded births being male. In 1977, 100.0% of babies named Mearl were boys. Interestingly, until around 1894, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1893 to 1893), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (74.1% boys from 1894 to 1977).
For boys, Mearl reached its peak popularity in 1920, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #502) with 35 births per million. The name was most common in 1909, with 96 births per million (ranked 4.5% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1977.
For girls, Mearl reached its peak popularity in 1915, achieving the 3.0% percentile (ranked #542) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1907, with 33 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1955.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mearl".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Mearl. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 69.4% confident that Mearl is pronounced as merl, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mearl, at 19.4% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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