girls:
26 births since 1915
#5690 (0th percentile)
boys:
82 births since 1915
#4504 (2nd percentile)
overall:
108 births since 1915
#7631 (1st percentile)
The name Mearle is the #7,631 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 108 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 1.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,504 (1.7% percentile) for all time with 82 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,690 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 26 births since 1915.
Mearle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 . Birth data for Mearle is available in 14 out of the 34 years between 1915 and 1948 (13 years for boys and 4 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 Mearle has been given predominantly to boys, with 75.9% of all recorded births being male. In 1948, 100.0% of babies named Mearle were boys.
For boys, Mearle reached its peak popularity in 1919, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #531) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1919, with 9 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 1948.
For girls, Mearle reached its peak popularity in 1917, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #574) with 7 births per million. The name was most common in 1917, with 7 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1923.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mearle".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Mearle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 87.9% confident that Mearle is pronounced as merl, which has 1 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mearl, at 12.1% confidence, with 1 syllables.
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