Vearl
Vearl was last recorded in 1958, when 7 babies were given it; 523 Americans have been recorded with it between 1906 and 1958 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Vearl by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Vearl?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #3,545, in 1958; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
27 babies in 1919, the peak
Vearl peaked in 1919, when 27 babies were given it (21 boys, #1,686 among boys’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1958 | under 5 | 7 | #3,545 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 7 | #3,539 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 6 | #3,914 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 7 | #3,436 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 6 | #3,657 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 6 | #3,668 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 9 | #2,775 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 7 | #3,354 | |
| 1946 | under 5 | 7 | #3,153 | |
| 1945 | under 5 | 5 | #3,752 |
Every recorded year (45)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1944 | under 5 | 7 | #3,091 | |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,332 | 16 | #1,903 |
| 1942 | under 5 | 7 | #3,194 | |
| 1941 | under 5 | 6 | #3,481 | |
| 1940 | under 5 | 20 | #1,570 | |
| 1938 | under 5 | 8 | #2,854 | |
| 1937 | under 5 | 11 | #2,324 | |
| 1936 | under 5 | 6 | #3,527 | |
| 1935 | under 5 | 12 | #2,238 | |
| 1934 | under 5 | 11 | #2,383 | |
| 1933 | under 5 | 6 | #3,618 | |
| 1932 | 5 | #5,035 | 9 | #2,834 |
| 1931 | under 5 | 15 | #1,995 | |
| 1930 | under 5 | 7 | #3,574 | |
| 1929 | under 5 | 11 | #2,580 | |
| 1928 | under 5 | 12 | #2,516 | |
| 1927 | under 5 | 16 | #2,118 | |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,566 | 20 | #1,783 |
| 1925 | under 5 | 8 | #3,384 | |
| 1924 | under 5 | 15 | #2,219 | |
| 1923 | under 5 | 22 | #1,693 | |
| 1922 | 7 | #4,405 | 12 | #2,622 |
| 1921 | under 5 | 13 | #2,496 | |
| 1920 | 9 | #3,572 | 15 | #2,223 |
| 1919 | 6 | #4,770 | 21 | #1,686 |
| 1918 | 7 | #4,257 | 11 | #2,688 |
| 1917 | 6 | #4,558 | 6 | #3,943 |
| 1916 | 10 | #3,015 | 16 | #1,940 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,910 | 13 | #2,170 |
| 1914 | under 5 | 9 | #2,439 | |
| 1913 | under 5 | 8 | #2,260 | |
| 1912 | under 5 | 6 | #2,523 | |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,839 | under 5 | |
| 1907 | under 5 | 5 | #1,533 | |
| 1906 | under 5 | 6 | #1,237 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Vearl a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 523 Americans recorded as Vearl, 13% are girls and 87% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Vearl: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Vearl, and how old are they?
An estimated 72 Americans named Vearl and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026, too few to state an age range. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 172 people named Vearl (30 women and girls, 142 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 110 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.6 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 4,373 babies since 1880, Vearl is the third most given (12% 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 Vearl
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 Vearl and names like it
- Compare Vearl and VerlBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1910sVearl peaked in 1919.
- The top names of 1919The year the most babies were named Vearl.
- Names starting with VMost given first.