Masculine dossier · first seen 1894

Mearl

Name: SSA baby-name counts for Mearl
Creator: Social Security Administration

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1920

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1894Peak 19202024

Peak year

1920

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,210

Mearl has moved from ordinary use into the archive. Its peak belongs most strongly to the Greatest Generation naming world, and its absence today gives the name the strange clarity of a cultural fossil.

Your name peaked in 1920, when 38 boys were named Mearl.

No boys were recorded with this name in 2024 — at least not five of them (the SSA's reporting floor).

Down 100% from its peak.

All told, about 1,210 Americans have been named Mearl and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1894.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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