Mearl — boys' name

What the Data Says About Mearl

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,210 babies named Mearl between 1894 and 1977, spanning 84 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mearl currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 1977. The name reached its historical peak in 1920, when 38 babies received it in a single year. Mearl is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 428 additional births since 1893.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mearl performed strongest in the 1920s, accumulating 296 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Mearl shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 37 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Iowa and Indiana. In total, SSA state-level files list Mearl in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mearl 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 1,210 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.