Masculine dossier · first seen 1886

Murl

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

Extinct Near statistical disappearance

Peak era

1919

Peak rank proxy

Current vitality

Dormant

Generation

Greatest Generation

1886Peak 19192024

Peak year

1919

Decline from peak

100%

2024

All-time

1,941

Murl 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 1919, when 65 boys were named Murl.

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 1,941 Americans have been named Murl and recorded by the Social Security Administration since 1886.

Rarity scoreStatistical floor

AssociationGreatest Generation

StabilityHighly era-bound

TrajectoryNear statistical disappearance

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