Dearl
Dearl was last recorded in 1989, when 7 babies were given it; 792 Americans have been recorded with it between 1917 and 1989 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Dearl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Dearl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #6,372, in 1989; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
24 babies in 1933, the peak
Dearl peaked in 1933, when 24 boys were given it, #1,369 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | 7 | #6,372 | 3.5 |
| 1986 | 7 | #5,461 | 3.8 |
| 1985 | 7 | #5,270 | 3.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,739 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,647 | 3.3 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,307 | 5.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #5,685 | 3.4 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,013 | 3.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,283 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 10 | #3,531 | 6.4 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1974 | 7 | #4,277 | 4.5 |
| 1973 | 10 | #3,268 | 6.4 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,702 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,734 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 8 | #3,586 | 4.3 |
| 1968 | 9 | #2,957 | 5.2 |
| 1967 | 10 | #2,639 | 5.7 |
| 1966 | 11 | #2,507 | 6.2 |
| 1965 | 7 | #3,309 | 3.8 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,899 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 8 | #3,107 | 3.9 |
| 1962 | 7 | #3,378 | 3.4 |
| 1961 | 16 | #2,082 | 7.5 |
| 1960 | 18 | #1,920 | 8.4 |
| 1959 | 15 | #2,135 | 7.0 |
| 1958 | 14 | #2,197 | 6.6 |
| 1957 | 14 | #2,210 | 6.5 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,528 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,812 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 19 | #1,774 | 9.3 |
| 1953 | 13 | #2,209 | 6.6 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,957 | 8.2 |
| 1951 | 14 | #2,071 | 7.4 |
| 1950 | 17 | #1,833 | 9.5 |
| 1949 | 13 | #2,144 | 7.3 |
| 1948 | 19 | #1,723 | 10.8 |
| 1947 | 20 | #1,705 | 10.9 |
| 1946 | 16 | #1,834 | 9.9 |
| 1945 | 17 | #1,639 | 12.6 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,221 | 8.1 |
| 1943 | 17 | #1,782 | 11.9 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,171 | 8.7 |
| 1941 | 16 | #1,775 | 13.0 |
| 1940 | 22 | #1,441 | 19.0 |
| 1939 | 13 | #1,980 | 11.7 |
| 1938 | 22 | #1,449 | 19.8 |
| 1937 | 13 | #2,017 | 12.2 |
| 1936 | 20 | #1,513 | 19.3 |
| 1935 | 23 | #1,429 | 22.1 |
| 1934 | 16 | #1,793 | 15.5 |
| 1933 | 24 | #1,369 | 24.2 |
| 1932 | 11 | #2,356 | 10.5 |
| 1931 | 16 | #1,868 | 15.4 |
| 1930 | 18 | #1,766 | 16.4 |
| 1929 | 14 | #2,115 | 13.0 |
| 1928 | 12 | #2,422 | 10.8 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,744 | 8.9 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,195 | 7.2 |
| 1925 | 9 | #2,977 | 8.1 |
| 1924 | 10 | #2,854 | 8.8 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,542 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,598 | 6.4 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,273 | 7.3 |
| 1919 | 7 | #3,481 | 7.1 |
| 1918 | 8 | #3,168 | 7.9 |
| 1917 | 6 | #3,644 | 6.5 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Dearl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Dearl has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Dearl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Dearl, and how old are they?
An estimated 361 Americans named Dearl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (46% of everyone recorded); the median is 67 years old and half are between 55 and 77. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 387 people named Dearl (12 women and girls, 375 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 439 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 6,030 babies since 1880, Dearl is the fourth most given (13% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Dearl
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Dearl and names like it
- Compare Dearl and DerylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1930sDearl peaked in 1933.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Dearl since 1910.
- The top names of 1933The year the most babies were named Dearl.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Dearl alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with DMost given first.