Gearl

Where Gearl comes from

Gearl hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1919
    First appearance
    #3,736 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1942
    Peak, #1,867
    15 babies named Gearl — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1947
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births.
  4. 1962
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes

We look up famous namesakes for names that have made the top 1,000. Gearl hasn't yet.

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.