Jearl — boys' name

What the Data Says About Jearl

The Social Security Administration has registered 542 babies named Jearl between 1919 and 1983, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Jearl currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1983. The name reached its historical peak in 1941, when 22 babies received it in a single year. Jearl is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 54 additional births since 1926.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Jearl performed strongest in the 1930s, accumulating 149 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Jearl shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 23 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oklahoma and Arkansas. In total, SSA state-level files list Jearl in 4 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Jearl in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 542 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.